Doug

“Der Missbrauch der Sprache lässt Böses in die Seele”
― Sokrates

“people say things
meant to rip you in half
but you hold the power to not
turn their words into a knife
and cut yourself”
― rupi kaur, Milk and honey

“One or two things are all you need
to travel over the blue pond, over the deep
roughage of the trees and through the stiff
flowers of lightning --- some deep
memory of pleasure, some cutting
knowledge of pain.

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But to lift the hoof!
For that you need
an idea.

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For years and years I struggled
just to love my life. And then

the butterfly
rose, weightless, in the wind.
"Don't love your life
too much," it said,

and vanished
into the world.”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to his summons and service.”
― Os Guinness, The Call: Finding and Fulfilling the Central Purpose of Your Life