Steven Schlafman
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Steven Schlafman
"If you could see the world the way I see it, you’d understand why I behave the way I do." — Axiom of Clinical Psychology
perspective and
Go to the Limits of Your Longing
Written by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated and read by Joanna Macy
Listen
God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move
longing and
“Find the small continuities that are important when everything else seems to be changing.”
—William Bridges
quotes and
“Some people keep their zest until the day they die. They keep a sense of curiosity. They care about things. They reach out. They enjoy. They risk failure.”
— John W. Gardner
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