"The place to find is within yourself."

-- Joseph Campbell

“I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.”

Source : Susan Strasberg (1981). “Bitter Sweet”
“Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.”
“I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.”

Source : Song: Pray, Album: Pray
“Who gets to choose what battle takes her down?”

Source : Marilyn Hacker (2015). “A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company
“If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.”
“No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.”
“We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably, we seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.”
“Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.”

Source : "My partner's negativity gets me down" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2013.

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