Everybody has a geography that can be used for change. That is why we travel to far off places. Whether we know it or not we need to renew ourselves in territories that are fresh and wild. We need to come home through the body of alien lands. ―Joan Halifax, The Fruitful Darkness Public Domain … Continue reading Quote for Today: Joan Halifax
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Quote for Today: Dorothea Dix
I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered … Continue reading Quote for Today: Dorothea Dix
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands, and I said nothing about the landscapes which I saw in dreams. My feet stepped like theirs over the floorboards and the flagstones, but my heart was far away, even if it beat … Continue reading Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
