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What and Who Inspire Maria Bello

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Maria Bello is an actress, activist, and author of Whatever . . . Love Is Love: Questioning the Labels We Give Ourselves. She and Zainab caught up recently to talk about love, relationships, humility, and more. Here are a few of the people and things that have inspired Maria lately.

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Narcissus and Goldmund

Hesse's novel of two medieval men, one quietly content with his religion and monastic life, the other in fervent search of more worldly salvation. This conflict between flesh and spirit, between emotional and contemplative man, was a life study for Hesse. It is a theme that transcends all time.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

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Letters to a Young Poet

At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of advice itself.

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The Mission: Music from the Motion Picture by Ennio Morricone (1986)

A few years ago, Maria and Zainab visited Ethiopia's Danakil Depression. As they were taking off, they shared a headset and listened to this soundtrack. "You and I had a glimpse of God" that day, says Maria, "and music only elevates that moment."

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FindCenter Quotes ImageSex is difficult; yes. But those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

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Dancing Queen by ABBA (1976)

When asked what music she always goes to for solace or for joy, Maria responded, "ABBA everything—when Dancing Queen comes on, I feel free. I love it."