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“During her life, their mom had been like a folded paper fan to them, and they were slowly starting to unfurl her, fold by fold, to see the delicate, ornate pattern painted on her skin. It was hard to let that go, to simply snap the fan shut once she knew what fascinating complexities were inside.”
― Versions of Her
― Versions of Her
“Probably, as in all metaphysical questions, both are true: Life is or has meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious
hope that meaning will preponderate and win the battle.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
hope that meaning will preponderate and win the battle.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“It was then that it dawned on me: I must take the responsibility, it is up to me how my fate turns out. I had been confronted with a problem to which I had to find the answer. And who posed the problem? Nobody ever answered me that. I knew that I had to find the answer out of my deepest self, that I was alone before God, and that God alone asked me these terrible things. From”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“What we experience as children becomes familiar and we are more likely to replicate experiences and attract people who carry similar patterns as our primary care givers.”
― The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
― The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“there was always, deep in the background, the feeling that something other than myself was involved. It was as though a breath of the great world of stars and endless space had touched me, or as if a spirit had invisibly entered the room—the spirit of one who had long been dead and yet was perpetually present in timelessness until far into the future. Denouements of this sort were wreathed with the halo of a numen.”
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
― Memories, Dreams, Reflections
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