"We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new."

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Source : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

Jalaja Bonheim

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“It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.”
“Is there an existence that is only mine?”

Source : Russell Hoban (2012). “Kleinzeit”, p.134, A&C Black
“Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.”
“"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."”
“I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age”
“History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.”
“A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without necessarily intending them to be the prototype for serial production. As a result, there became available a body of knowledge about what would work and what would not work.”

Source : "Computers Then and Now". Journal of the ACM 15, Sect. 1, (pp. 1-7), January 1968.
“Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.”

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