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Mothers of God
…I found the courage to ask the teachers to be excused from reading out loud, as I was so afraid of it, some believed me and stopped asking me, some thought that in one way or another, I was pulling their leg…
In a way it was as if the fear took my language from me, and that I had to take it back, so to speak. And if I were to do that, it couldn’t be on other people’s terms, but on my own.
I started to write my own texts, short poems, short stories.
And I discovered that doing so, gave me a sense of safety, gave me the opposite of fear.
In a way I found a place inside myself that was just mine, and from that place I could write what was just mine.”
— Literature laureate Jon Fosse spoke about the sanctuary writing has provided him in his Nobel Prize lecture.
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We can spot true teachers because they seem to recognize our wings before we do. They hear the song of our hearts…
— Jim Rigby
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What makes you different or weird — that’s your strength.
— Meryl Streep
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. So if we are still and we are unmoving as presence we see everything is moving but as soon as the mind moves and we manifest as a subjectivity that is…
