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I search these words and find nothing more than myself caught between the grapes and the thorns. —Anne Sexton— We are frequently afraid to look into ourselves, to probe our depths. We’ve feared that if we examined our basic motives and desires, we’d find a swamp of evil: corrupt, selfish and full of hate. But […]
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There is nothing so moving—not even acts of love or hate—as the discovery that one is not alone. —Robert Ardrey— We live in concert with others, compatibly at times and at other times not so well, but always with others. We don’t always acknowledge our togetherness, but when are moved to, we quickly sense the […]
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The sky changes every minute…on the plains side of the divide most people have visions or go mad. —Sandra Alcosser— Our adaptability is a constant source of amazement. We can learn to live and even thrive in such radically differing settings as a high-rise apartment in New York City and a sheepskin hut in Mongolia. […]
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Two birds fly past. That are needed somewhere. —Robert Bly— Our lives touch the lives of thousands of other people in ever widening circles. Every act of ours has a public dimension, even something as private as sharpening a pencil or filling a teakettle.We all are needed by everyone, and our chosen lives become a […]
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Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. —Nikki Giovanni— We’re not perfect. Our mistakes are consistent with the lessons we’ve been assigned to learn. We strive for perfection in ourselves and sometimes we demand it of others. And when we fall short of the mark, we frequently feel […]
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. —Carl Gustav Jung— Life is full of contrasts. What we perceive or feel at this moment is often heightened by an experience we just passed through. It’s the sum […]
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Honor: what a spiky, uncomfortable thing it can be. I expect the young are wise to be dropping it. —Rose macaulay— Each generation looks at its children with mangled pride and horror and thinks they are destroying standards, overturning values, and generally going to wrack and ruin. In Greece, in the fourth century B.C., Plato […]
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But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos. —Molly Haskell— The offer of love to the person sharing this time in our lives softens them, ourselves, and the events we share. Giving and receiving loving thoughts eases any momentary difficulty; loving and feeling loved reminds […]
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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. —G.W. Von Leibnitz— Broadening our vision beyond our self-serving needs and acknowledging the importance of others in our lives not only fits their spirits, but also fosters positive feelings within ourselves. Our personal happiness grows when we nourish someone else’s. That which we […]
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Old things were stirring: the old illness of remembering was going to start again. —Rosamond Lehmann— Does the act of remembering ever resemble an illness? Yes, if it causes pain. For many of us, memories of our past behavior seem to live in cages, like wild animals; if we enter the cages, the beasts attack […]