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It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.


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Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.



Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

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I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.



I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.



There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.



You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about



Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.



Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.



...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.



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