“The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears.”
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P O E T R Y: Language against which we have no defences.
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We find that all along, we had what we needed from the beginning and that in the end we have returned to its essence, an essence we could not understand until we had undertaken the journey.
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Read and admire, but then go back to first principles and ask the question yourself, in your own way. Dare to disagree.
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“Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human.”
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The ability to speak the truth is as much the ability to describe what it is like to stand in trepidation at this door, as it is to actually go through it and become that beautifully honest spiritual warrior, equal to all circumstances, we would like to become.
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Vulnerability is not a weakness, a passing indisposition, or something we can arrange to do without. Vulnerability is not a choice. Vulnerability is the underlying, ever-present, and abiding undercurrent of our natural state. To run from vulnerability is to run from the essence of our nature.
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