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A good relationship, like a good parent or a good death, need only be ‘good enough’, consisting of two people navigating each other’s inadequacies with kindness and sympathy. At its best, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke tells us, it ‘consists in two solitudes protecting, defining, and welcoming one another’.2 Likewise, a mature life, and a flourishing
... See moreDerren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Some valedictory words from Eileen Myles: “I hope there’s mystery and poetry in your life—not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.”
A beautiful quote from John O’Donahue, on friendship and conversations:
... See moreWhen was the last time you had a great conversation? A conversation that wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, but when you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that found places within you that you
“‘Whoever shall be guided so far towards the mysteries of love, by contemplating beautiful things rightly in due order, is approaching the last grade. Suddenly he will behold a beauty marvellous in its nature, that very Beauty, Socrates, for the sake of which all the earlier hardships had been borne: in the first place, everlasting, and never being
... See moreMary Oliver • Devotions
One need not have journeyed too far into this silent land to realize that the so-called psychological self, our personality (not what Paul is talking about as hidden with Christ in God) is a cognitive construct pasted up out of thoughts and feelings. A rather elaborate job has been done of it, and it is singularly useful. But our deepest identity,
... See moreMartin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
Maria Popova • The Art of Human Connection: Pioneering Psychologist and Philosopher William James on the Most Important Attitude for Relationships
Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology (Veritas Book 20)
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