"When we don't get what we want, there's a legitimate grieving, and then the spiritual journey truly begins, because not getting what we want breaks our self-reference; and once that is broken, we are aware that we are a part of a larger whole. It changes everything."

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Mark Nepo

#Spiritual Quotes #Journey Quotes #Grieving Quotes

“This Western culture of ours tends to sacrifice the full range of experience to a lower common denominator that's acceptable to more people; we end up with McDonald's instead of real food, Holiday Inns instead of homes, and USA Today instead of news and cultural analysis. And we do that with the rest of our lives.”
“Then I guess we cannot miss the famous festival in New Orleans," he found himself saying, just to take the shadows from her eyes. She was silent a moment, her fingers twisting in the blanket. "Do you mean it, Gregori? We can go?" "You know how much I love crowds of humans," he said, straight-faced. She laughed at him. "They don't bite." "I do," he said, the words low and soft, his silver gaze at once possessive.”
“The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.”
“In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.”

Source : Louise Beebe Wilder (1918). “Colour in My Garden”
“I act irrationally, I defy the odds, I engage when others would run. I look for trouble, I seek chaos, it is a burden.”
“Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.”

Source : "The Nitrogen Fix".
“I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.”
“That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They didn't look back, and they often didn't tell their children about it. They didn't want to talk about it. It was too painful, what they'd gone through and the caste system of the South, which was Jim Crow.”

Source : "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. December 23, 2010.

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