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Calling and the Holy Moment
True initiation is a response to an inner calling; it requires that you face personal challenges heroically and experience a genuine rebirth into a new way of being.”
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I was interested in reading very early, because of a story I was read, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was The Little Mermaid, and I don’t know if you remember it but The Little Mermaid is very sad. The little mermaid falls in love with the prince, but she can’t marry him, because she’s a mermaid. And it’s so sad that I can’t tell you the details. But well, as soon as I finished the story I went outside and walked around and around the house where we lived, in the brick house, and I made a story with my own happy ending, because I thought I owed it to the little mermaid,…And I wasn’t worried that maybe the rest of the world didn’t know this new story, because I felt it had been published as soon as I thought it. So, there you go, it was an early start in the writing.
— Alice Munro on her beginnings in writing.
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How can you have lived for so long and still not get it? This self obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.
