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“It is not easy to give closeness and freedom, safety plus danger.”

One of the hardest realizations in life, and one of the most liberating, is that our mothers are neither saints nor saviors — they are just people who, h...


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We spend our lives trying to find our power and our freedom. It is not easy: We live in a culture that has distorted the meaning and measure of power, confusing visibility with value, status with substance, attention with love; we live in a universe where free will m...


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“One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy.”

When the twenty-two-year-old


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“What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.”

Most people live with a great deal more suffering than is visible to even the most proximate and sensitive onlooker. Many have surviv...


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“People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.”

Van Morrison once characterized Bob Dylan (b. May 24, 1941) as the greatest living poet. And since poetry, per Muriel Rukeyser’s beautiful...


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