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- There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are…
- Eventually we realize that not knowing what to do is just as real and just as useful as knowing what to do. Not knowing stops…
- Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if…
- To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and…
- It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a lovely,…
- We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and from which to…
- Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.
- There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.
- Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought was necessary to…
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