CLEAR ALL
Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action.
One of the deepest purposes of all art is to marry what is with what can be.
. . . it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.
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If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.
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Respect the fact that all you do and are now has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.
People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.