Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.
("Eat, Pray, Love")
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Inevitably even the most original new ideas will eventually harden into dogma or stop working for everybody.Elizabeth Gilbert
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Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope
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I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.
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One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace
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