"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
-- Doris Lessing, 'The Golden Notebook'
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βWe will have to find the strength to carry the heaviest of all burdens - an empty bag of tricksβ
- Nora Bateson, Small Arcs of Larger Circles
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βGood questions work on us, we donβt work on them.β
- Peter Block, The Answer to How is Yes
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βWe donβt have a word for non-linear in our languages because nobody would consider travelling, thinking or talking in a straight line in the first place. The winding path is just how a path is, and therefore it needs no nameβ
- Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk
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βWe think of the key, each in his prison
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prisonβ
β T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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"Forever is composed of nows."
β Emily Dickinson
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βThere is no hostile world out there plotting our demise. There is no βout thereβ for anyone to occupy. We are utterly intertwinedβ
- Meg Wheatley & Myron Keller-Rogers, A Simpler Way
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"What gives you the right to define a good death for anyone else?" she demanded again.
"By the power vested in me by absolutely no one at all, I will define a good death", I said. "You could try too, if you want".
- Stephen Jenkinson, Die Wise.
19.12.2024 15:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
βThe essence of transformation is neither the caterpillar nor the butterfly, but rather what happens in between. And when we look "in between" we see precisely β nothing, for the form has been dissolved on the one side, and hasn't happened yet on the otherβ
- Harrison Owen, Spirit
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