Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction... What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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  2. The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

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  4. Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and...

  5. It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

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