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"This is beautifully written! I love this at times almost poetic style that is also very accessible. On a different note, it reminds me of about everything I've ever disliked/dispised about organized religion, colonialism, and white people behavior." — May 08, 2026 09:46AM
"This is beautifully written! I love this at times almost poetic style that is also very accessible. On a different note, it reminds me of about everything I've ever disliked/dispised about organized religion, colonialism, and white people behavior." — May 08, 2026 09:46AM
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
― A Hat Full of Sky
― A Hat Full of Sky
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