Life experiences

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Our life experiences will have resonances

within our innermost being, so that we will

feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

Memory

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Memory is a funny thing. If you want to bury it, it will be bottled up deeply inside. But if you decide to unleash it, it will open a floodgate and take over everything else.

Kien Nguyen, Asian American dentist
from "Language Is a Place of Struggle": Great Quotes by People of Color, edited by Tram Nguyen

Conversation

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Conversation isn’t, after all, a moment: It’s a process, and it keeps happening, with cycles of acceptance and resistance, epiphany and doubt.

Sara Miles, Take This Bread, A Radical Conversion

Simplicity

I have to let go of the need to know so much.  What we can know is so small - the holiness around is so large.  Now I trust in simplicity, simplicity and love.

a Hindu teacher