Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them – then men are old.
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Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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Tomorrow is our permanent address.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
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