There is a feeling the body gives the mindof having missed something, a bedrock poverty, like fallingwithout the sense that you are passing through one world, that you could reach anotheranytime. Instead the realis crossing you, your body an arrivalyou know is false but can't outrun. And somewhere in betweenthese geese forever entering andthese spiders turning back, this astonishing delay, the everyday, takes place. Jorie Graham
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Life is not a race and we should not be in a rush to accomplish everything right now. We need to take our time and do things slowly. Sometimes we may need to make mistakes to learn from them and it takes time for us to grow up.

Source: The Dream Of The Unified Field: Selected Poems, 19741994

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