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“Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?”
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“And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.”
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“Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.”
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“They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.”
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“I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [...] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, "Did there used to be stars there?”
― Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
― Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
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