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What you feel you are always dominates what you feel you would like to be; therefore, to be realized the wish must be felt as a state that is rather than a state that is not.
“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together?
Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
―
Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
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“the courage it took to get out of bed each
morning
to face the same things
over and over
was
enormous.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
morning
to face the same things
over and over
was
enormous.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Touched bottom again. Decided to liberate myself... We are never trapped unless we choose to be.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
“I’m too alone in the world, yet not alone enough
to make each hour holy.
I’m too small in the world, yet not small enough
to be simply in your presence, like a thing—
just as it is.
I want to know my own will
and to move with it.
And I want, in the hushed moments
when the nameless draws near,
to be among the wise ones—
or alone.
I want to mirror your immensity.
I want never to be too weak or too old
to bear the heavy, lurching image of you.
I want to unfold.
Let no place in me hold itself closed,
for where I am closed, I am false.
I want to stay clear in your sight.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
to make each hour holy.
I’m too small in the world, yet not small enough
to be simply in your presence, like a thing—
just as it is.
I want to know my own will
and to move with it.
And I want, in the hushed moments
when the nameless draws near,
to be among the wise ones—
or alone.
I want to mirror your immensity.
I want never to be too weak or too old
to bear the heavy, lurching image of you.
I want to unfold.
Let no place in me hold itself closed,
for where I am closed, I am false.
I want to stay clear in your sight.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Old Souls Book Club
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Literary Fiction by People of Color
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