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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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And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have…
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For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away,…
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Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless…
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Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the…
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In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The…
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