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How could the fierce collapse of its thunderous waves, time after time on the dark-sand shore seem so full of softness and ease? How could such force seem so peaceful? The very waters that had frightened the life all but out of me were in
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“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.”
― Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.
― Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.
“Who are the children of the future? I should like to answer: the people who renounce domination and the dreams of rule, people who are not victorious and to not dream of victories, but who open themselves and their institutions in creative receptivity towards what is divine, towards what is human, and towards what is natural. These people are the heirs of the future.- Juergen Moltmann This book is a companion to Cory and the Seventh Story, a children’s fable about “them" and “us”.”
― The Seventh Story: Us, Them, and the End of Violence
― The Seventh Story: Us, Them, and the End of Violence
“Love is an answer to the lack that lies at the heart of aliveness, but it does not compensate for that lack—it transforms it. Love transforms that lack into an excess that produces new contradictions; it is the luminous chasm and the ephemeral mass, freedom in impossibility, the always insufficient answer to the paradox of life: “vivacidad pura” (Octavio Paz)—pure aliveness, experienced from inside the world.”
― Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology
― Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology
Kindle British Mystery Book Club
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This is a book club for people who love British Mysteries both modern and classic. You do not have to own a Kindle. We have a monthly reads and these ...more
Irish Lit & Times
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Celtic peoples and lovers of the Irish alike, gather to sing our songs of joyous melancholia! Come discuss anything related to any Irish author, and f ...more
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