“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
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“we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
and death i think is no parenthesis”
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laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
and death i think is no parenthesis”
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“time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough”
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but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough”
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“Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel... the moment you feel, you're nobody ― but-yourself ― in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else ― means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.”
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