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Recognizing that people’s reactions don’t belong to you is the only sane way to create.
So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind’s workings.
The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us. . . .The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being’s difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself.
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
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Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.
. . . At some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.
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