Monday, February 7, 2011

to bring ourselves to birth







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One of the lovely things about being a human is that we are called in each moment to bring ourselves to birth.
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Part of the difficulty of our times is that we have reduced the magnificent adventure of being a human being to endless, wearisome projects of self-improvement and self-analysis according to the flattest and most boring maps that could be made


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~ John O'Donohue
from Beauty the Invisible Embrace

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