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many of us believe that to speak of love with any emotional intensity means we will be perceived as weak and irrational.
“There is a difference between visions that come out of
the most individualistic tendencies and those that arise when we are able to admit that we need
other people.”
― What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
the most individualistic tendencies and those that arise when we are able to admit that we need
other people.”
― What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
“We stumble, we trip, we fall down, we get up. We stumble, we trip, we fall down, we get up. The body transforms, the mind transforms, everything transforms. Some people start with the mind, some people start with the body, some people start with communities. Whatever the case is, where you start and witness transformation—take it into all aspects of your life. Let it seep in.”
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
― Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
Meshayla’s 2025 Year in Books
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