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This is another way of describing neuroplasticity, the relatively recent discovery that neurons that “fire together, wire together.” When a circuit fires repeatedly, it can become a default setting—the response most likely to occur.
“Rest comes when we become more by doing less, when we don’t allow the urgent to crowd out the important”
― The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
― The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
“To Know the Dark"
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.”
― Terrapin: Poems by Wendell Berry
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.”
― Terrapin: Poems by Wendell Berry
“When we disown parts of ourself, we tend to judge others who display those same qualities. We lay claim to moral superiority. This holding too tightly to a role can create a chasm between people that’s difficult to cross.”
― The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
― The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
“I am not romantic about dying. It is hard work. Maybe the hardest work we will ever do in this life. It doesn’t always turn out well. It can be sad, cruel, messy, beautiful, and mysterious. Most of all it is normal. We all go through it. None of us get out of here alive.”
― The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
― The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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