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The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them.

Kirkland Newman Smulders — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:17:36 +0000

The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them.

Francis Weller

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Making the darkness conscious

Kirkland Newman Smulders — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:16:19 +0000

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious… Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Carl Gustav Jung

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The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Kirkland Newman Smulders — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:14:26 +0000

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Carl Gustav Jung

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Life will break you.

Kirkland Newman Smulders — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 10:47:04 +0000

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

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The purpose of life is not to be happy

Kirkland Newman Smulders — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:17:44 +0000

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The psychiatrist’s song

Kirkland Newman Smulders — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:28:00 +0000

Learn to know the mind-behind-
Mind that sees when you are blind.
Learn to trust the mind-below-
Mind that’s wiser than you know.

Learn to meet the fear you fear,
Hate you hate, and see them clear.
Enter the forbidden place.
Face at last your other face.

Learn to be alone; then only
Reach out hand no longer lonely.
Grow,be tall yet reconciled
To yourself the weeping child.

Love; be easy, and be warm.
Find the fire beyond the form.
Laugh. Forgive yourself; forgive
Sins long dead, and learn to live.

Arthur Seymour John Tessimond

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The mountain

Kirkland Newman Smulders — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 07:33:42 +0000

If the mountain seems too big today then climb a hill instead

if the morning brings you sadness it’s ok to stay in bed

if the day ahead weighs heavy and your plans feel like a curse

there’s no shame in rearranging

don’t make yourself feel worse

if a shower stings like needles and a bath feels like you’ll drown

if you haven’t washed your hair for days

don’t throw away your crown

a day is not a lifetime, a rest is not defeat

don’t think of it as failure

just a quiet, kind retreat

it’s ok to take a moment from an anxious, fractured mind

the world will not stop turning while you get realigned

the mountain will still be there when you want to

try again

you can climb it in your own time

just love yourself til then

Laura Ding-Edwards

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Do not ask me to remember

Kirkland Newman Smulders — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 07:46:56 +0000

Do not ask me to remember,

Don’t try to make me understand,

Let me rest and know you’re with me,

Kiss my cheek and hold my hand.

I’m confused beyond your concept,

I am sad and sick and lost.

All I know is that I need you

To be with me at all cost.

Do not lose your patience with me,

Do not scold or curse or cry.

I can’t help the way I’m acting,

Can’t be different though I try.

Just remember that I need you,

That the best of me is gone,

Please don’t fail to stand beside me,

Love me ’til my life is done.

Owen Darnell

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For a seed to achieve its greatest expression

Kirkland Newman Smulders — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:24:39 +0000

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.

Cynthia Occelli

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You will feel the most significant experience

Kirkland Newman Smulders — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 10:21:06 +0000

You will feel the most significant experience, you will become ecstatic if you can feel that the whole existence needs you, that you will be missed, that if you are not here there will be a gap. You will be missed. You are not unnecessary. You are not superfluous. You have tremendous significance. Hence, love yourself. You are needed as much as the trees, as the flowers, as the birds, and as the sun, as the moon, as the stars. You have a reason to be here and you have a right to be the way you are.

Osho

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