"From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her."

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Source : Sue Woodruff, Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1982). “Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg”, Bear & Co

Mechthild of Magdeburg

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“As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.”
“Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.”
“Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.”
“Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the seas most exquisite species will not survive.”
“Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.”
“As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.”
“And when I was a kid being an actor was not cool. I'm thirty now and when I was a kid in the 80s that wasn't a cool thing to be.”
“I love the short-haired lifestyle.”

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