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“Inconsistencies, imperfections, and failures to live up to ideals are all part of what it means to be human. The richness of being human lies precisely in our lack of perfection—the source of so much of our longing, out of which emerges so much creativity, beauty, and goodness."

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 15 Aug 2020

4/ This, then, is the secret kernel to be unearthed in ordeal. “The places we suffer are eventually places of beauty, where limitation and damage, rather than remaining forces that cripple, are revealed as transfiguration.” - John O'Donohue

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Quoted by@AsiyaMiya @holdengraber "Let me live to my sad self hereafter kind.” ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins.   “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.’ ~ Rainier Maria Rilke "People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time.” ~ C. S. LewisQuoted by@SophiaCycles Nietzsche: “Whoever has built a ‘new heaven’ has found the strength for it in his own hell.” Benner: "Spare me perfection. Give me instead the wholeness that comes from embracing the full reality of who I am, just as I am."Quoted by@SophiaCycles Moore: “...tolerate the full weight of human possibility as the raw material for an alchemical, soulful life...have the spiritual radiance of the holy fool who has dared to live life as it presents itself & to unfold personality with its heavy yet creative dose of imperfection.”