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“What gets in the way of living with vitality," Tejpal asked.
Everything, I thought to myself.
"Wounds," Tejpal said. She talked about the importance of forgiveness, and how the most important step in forgiveness is to allow yourself to feel the pain of the hurt you received. Only then would the pain begin to heal.
Suddenly, Dracula leaned forward and spoke up. Even though this wasn't really a situation where you were supposed to speak without being called on. "That's not true," she blurted out angrily, her Long Island accent pulling all her vowels downward. "There are some things people do that hurt you forever and that cause scars that will never heal. Just 'cause you think about them doesn't mean they're going away."
All the women in the room turned around to stare at this angry person. This was supposed to be a touchy-feely, self-discovery happy place where Tejpal was in charge. You are not supposed to attack Tejpal. I sensed that people thought she was crazy and normally I would find her as annoying for not getting it as everyone else was, but instead I felt a wave of deep compassion. It was the first time during my visit to Miraval that I felt attuned to how deeply, painfully exposed people can allow themselves to be when there's even a sliver of permission to be honest.”
Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It

Laurie Forest
“The same way it always happens,” Sylla says, a world-weary sorrow in her eight eyes as she embraces him. “By following a flawed story as if the whole of it is true.”
Laurie Forest, The Demon Tide

Katy Hays
“Wasn’t that, after all, why we had become academics and researchers in the first place? To discover art as a practice, not just as an artifact?”
Katy Hays, The Cloisters

Laurie Forest
“Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative...is to live your life based on injustice and lies.”
Laurie Forest, The Black Witch

Katy Hays
“And I searched my memory -- that thin, imperfect archive -- for where might have seen it before.

[Ann Stilwell]”
Katy Hays, The Cloisters
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