Building Quote by Gretel Ehrlich

“Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?”

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Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

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Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

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Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

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