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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

by Oliver Sacks

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Oct 28, 2017 04:23AM

“The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

tags: anxiety, change, ego

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“To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.”
― Cynthia Bourgeault, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind

tags: compassion, divine, mourn

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“Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

tags: humility, law, submission

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“every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

tags: forgiveness, spirituality

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“People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first place.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

tags: creativity, rules, second-half-of-life

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