Sacred space is the eclipse over my holy place.
“Like a jar you housed infinite tenderness
And the infinite tenderness shattered you like a jar.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
And the infinite tenderness shattered you like a jar.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
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