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“To document,” Jurgenson writes, “is to be involved with our own experience instead of passively letting it float by.” “Every day of your lives is practice in becoming the person you want to be. No instantaneous miracle is suddenly going to occur and make you brave and courageous and true.” - Audre Lorde At my core, there is a universality. But I let people do the scavenger hunt and find it. - julio torres I have learned since then that people do things that are inexplicable to us because of their attachment styles, personal paranoias and relationship histories. It’s best to not read into it too much. People can leave whenever they want to. People can, and do stay. | Ava from Bookbear Express make what you love more important than what you hate The Four Agreements Wash, rinse, repeat, daily “Remember: despite how open, peaceful and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you, as deeply as they’ve met themselves.” "As soon as we know that something is real, we can no longer be at
John O'Donohue on the poet William "Bill" Stafford: "...In his book, Crossing Unmarked Snow, Bill said the following four sentences, around which one could live a very honourable life. And they are, to me, the epitome of what a spirituality of grace would be about. He said: The things you do not have to say make you rich. Saying the things you do not have to say weakens your talk. Hearing the things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing. And the things you know before you hear them, those are you, and this is the reason you're in the world. So grace has that wonderful…
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