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Hope
 
Hope is with you when you believe
The earth is not a dream but living flesh,
That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie,
That all things you have ever seen here
Are like a garden looked at from a gate.
 
You cannot enter. But you're sure it's there.
Could we but look more clearly and wisely
We might discover somewhere in the garden
A strange new flower and an unnamed star.
 
 from  Hope
by Czeslaw Milosz

  




To learn how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling.  Logic can tell you superficially where a path might lead to, but it cannot judge whether your heart will be in it.
Jean Shinoda Bolen

 

 

  

 

 THE WELL OF GRIEF


Those who will not slip beneath
        the still surface on the well of grief

    turning downward through its black water
        to the place we cannot breathe

    will never know the source from which we drink,
        the secret water cold and clear,

    nor find in the darkness glimmering
        the small round coins
            thrown by those who wished for something else.

David Whyte  



 









EXCELLENCE VS. PERFECTION



Excellence is the willingness to be wrong; Perfection is being right.

Excellence is risk; Perfection is fear.

Excellence is powerful; Perfection is anger and frustration.

Excellence is spontaneous; Perfection is conformity.

Excellence is accepting; Perfection is judgment.

Excellence is giving; Perfection is taking.

Excellence is confidence; Perfection is doubt.

Excellence is flowing; Perfection is pressure.

Excellence is a journey; Perfection is a destination.

Excellence is surrender; Perfection is consuming.

Excellence is trust; Perfection is selfishness.



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