He loves me, he loves me not. How many flowers must I kill before he loves me?” ~He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
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Kimberly Kinrade
Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family...
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William Zinsser
I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.
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Karen Armstrong
Understanding the Way of Story as a sacred pattern and a living event. Story can reveal a spiritual path and or the way to healing. Stories become the foundation of health, peacebuilding and vision. Learning to listen, to recognize, to understand and attend the teachings...
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Deena Metzger
One afternoon as I just gazed at the topmost branches of those immensely tall trees I began to notice that the uppermost twigs and leaves were lyrical happy dancers glad that they had been apportioned the top, with all that rumbling experience of the whole...
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Jack Kerouac
Joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms,
Reinvention is my philosophy, if you want to call it that, ” he says, looking out the window. “Imagination is the key to creating a life that is ever new.” Stanley turns his eyes to me. “We are each of us a changeling person, ”...
You go on with your life, because life goes on, ” says Isabel. “You see this in anyone who has survived a traumatic situation. My own daughter died, for example.” Her only daughter, Paula Frias, died of porphyria in 1992 at the age of twenty-seven....
The French have a term for this brazenness: je m’en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.
