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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has…
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Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.
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It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the…
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The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given…
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If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around…
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To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.
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When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning.
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The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but…
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The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.
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When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret frontier in…
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We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after…
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In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and…
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Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed…
— Colin Thubron
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In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
— Stephen Greenblatt
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Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Our task is to harvest from the mortal world fruits for the immortal.
— Rudolf Steiner
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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the…
— Stephen King
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All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.
— Anne Rice
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The eternal world and the mortal world are not parallel, rather they are fused.
— John O'Donohue
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Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as…
— Anne Rice
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The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end.
— Kami Garcia
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Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back…
— Ismail Kadaré
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