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There was a particular sort of indignity that came along with being simultaneously well-educated and in dire straits financially.
“Our charge is not to ‘save the world’ after all,” (activist Courtney Martin)’s written. “It is to live in it, flawed and fierce, loving and humble.”
― Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
― Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
“I’m drawn to the Jewish notion of the soul, nephesh, which is not something preexistent but emergent—forming in and through physicality and relational experience. This suggests that we need our bodies to claim our souls. The body is where every virtue lives or dies, but more: our bodies are access points to mystery. And in some way that barely makes sense to me, I’m sure that we have to have feet planted on the ground, literally and metaphysically, to reach towards what is beyond and above us.”
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“Hope is an orientation, an insistence on wresting wisdom and joy from the endlessly fickle fabric of space and time.”
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“Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete.
Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.”
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Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.”
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“A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.”
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
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