Goodthingsinlife - Inexplicable Feelings

“I love your name. (…) I pray it into the night till its letters are light.”

— Carol Ann Duffy, from Name in “Rapture”

“Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Like a river has no need of air, nor the sea of land, nor the sword of banquets, I have no need of the world if you are not in it.”

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Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “Poema XXXVI” (tr. James O’Connor)

[Original: Fuera de ti ha de sobrarme el mundo, como le sobra al río el aire, al mar la tierra, a la espada la mesa del convite.]

They may have said no one would listen. I’m listening.

They may have said no one would care. I care.

They may have said no one would believe you. I believe you.

They were wrong.

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“Lately I’ve been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and who I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be…and when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

— Andrea Gibson

“One of the most amazing things that can happen is finding someone who sees everything you are and won’t let you be anything less. They see the potential of you. They see endless possibilities. And through their eyes, you start to see yourself the same way. As someone who matters. As someone who can make a difference in this world.”

— Susane Colasanti