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- My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just…
- I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means…
- You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish…
- You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. You can make the work a chore, or you can have a good…
- Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom…
- I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations,…
- When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.
- Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.
- In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you will…
- When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life,…
- I've always thought I could use my brain and my heart to jockey everyone around to the good. But life is not jockeyable. When you…
- Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any…
- Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe.
- Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially…
- You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And…
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