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- When you had an ‘anam cara,’ (soul friend), your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an ancient and eternal way…
- As you grow, you develop the ideal of where your true belonging could be - the place, the home, the partner, and the work. You…
- In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and…
- When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to fear and negativity.…
- We have surface time, which is the time we move through every day, but we need to reach the rhythms of deep time. Like the…
- I arise today... Blessed by all things / wings of breath, / delight of eyes, / wonder of whisper, / intimacy of touch, / eternity…
- When you begin to sense that your imagination is the place where you are most divine, you feel called to clean out of your mind…
- If you try to avoid or remove the awkward quality, it will pursue you. The only effective way to still its unease is to transfigure…
- All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in…
- All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration…
- If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to…
- If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will…
- You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To…
- All through your life your soul takes care of you...your soul is alive and awakened, gathering, sheltering and guiding your ways and days in the…
- May all that is unlived in you blossom into a future graced with love.
- This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let…
- We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended…
- Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics,…
- The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from the beauty of landscape and the cold perfect form.…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle