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Mike Hale's avatar

"The only way to flourish is to stand in the gap between desire and reality, the what-would-have-been and the what-is, and not feel the sting of loss, but see the gap not as a gap, but as a sweet spot of acceptance.

Only then can you settle into your body and the earth and notice that, right in front of you, a butterfly is draining every drop of nectar from purple blossoms — and you are reminded, so should you." (Virginia Gilbert-American Author and Essayist)

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Sandra Riccardi's avatar

“it wasn’t that avenues had been closed off to me throughout life. It was that I wasn’t present enough to notice them.” So true.

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