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Solarev
The word ‘belonging’ holds together the two fundamental aspects of life: being and longing, the Longing of our being and the Being of our longing. Belonging is deep; only in a superficial sense does it refer to our external attachment to people, places and things.
John O'Donohue • Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Hunger To Belong
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land
“memory and desire, stirring“ hit the sentiments of the presence.
For me, most simply, contemplative spirituality is a fidelity to beholding the divine in all things. In the field, on the walk home, sitting under the oak tree that hugs my house. A sacred attention.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
And so we do. But our notebooks give us away, for however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable “I.” We are not talk ing here about the kind of notebook that is patently for public consump tion, a structural conceit for binding together a series of grace... See more
Joan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
In the worst of these conditions, knowledge is wielded as a tool of power through which education systems can actively oppress entire populations, preventing the awareness of their own agency in their lives.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do - we do it all the time. -- Alice Munro, Dear Life
events are events on their own, and it’s our objective narration of them that can make it untruthful and thus hurt us. — Marcus Aurelius in Meditations
I don’t like being seen as a content creator. In fact, I don’t believe content creation or writing is an occupation, because it denotes that creating or writing is a thing we do, instead of something we embody naturally.
For me, writing is not what I do , it’s who I am.
I do not try.
Creating/writing comes out of me the way I sweat during a workout:... See more
For me, writing is not what I do , it’s who I am.
I do not try.
Creating/writing comes out of me the way I sweat during a workout:... See more
Sherry Ning • Escape Competition Through Authenticity
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage. — Claude M. Bristol