January 2011
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WatchCourage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the english language, it’s from the latin word cor, meaning heart. The original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.
These people very simply had the courage to be imperfect.
They had the compassion to be kind to themselves first and then to others, because as it turns out, we...
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Thomas Merton on becoming the poet that you were...
Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the man or the artist who is called for by all the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be...
“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath (via spookyhouse)
December 2010
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