Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is … - Deena Metzger

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Deena Metzger

Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

Agreement, Complexity, Fear, Innuendo, People, Thrilling

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Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

Appears, Beauty, Completely, Openly

There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul that is not reserved only for gods, heroes, and saints. Story is one bridge between the human realm and the divine.

Divine, Drama, God, Hero, Soul, Story

A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.

Encouraging, Inspirational, Knowledge, Life, Sacred, Ultimately

Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!

Lying, Patterns, Speak, Think, Thinking, Writing

Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.

Hidden, Process, Restore, Stories, Understand, Writing

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The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.

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Upton Sinclair

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

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Desmond Tutu

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

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I prefer to cry alone, Pride? No. I just want to avoid trial of people who don't know the reason of my tears.

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