“Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.”
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“The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes. ”
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“One regret, dear world,
That I am determined not to have
When I am lying on my deathbed
Is that
I did not kiss you enough. a”
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That I am determined not to have
When I am lying on my deathbed
Is that
I did not kiss you enough. a”
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“Wherever it left us,
we were barely learning to live with it
when here came Flannery O'Connor and Hank Williams
to tell us that no one has ever been loved
the way everybody wants to be loved,
and that's hard. That's hard.
--last stanza of How Step by Step We Have Come to Understand”
― Time and the Tilting Earth: Poems
we were barely learning to live with it
when here came Flannery O'Connor and Hank Williams
to tell us that no one has ever been loved
the way everybody wants to be loved,
and that's hard. That's hard.
--last stanza of How Step by Step We Have Come to Understand”
― Time and the Tilting Earth: Poems
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