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The Cloud Clears as You Enter It
We have to think of the theatre — of all the arts — as we would a body of a loved one on a surgical table, and we are called on to do everything we can to save and improve the health of this person, this thing we love. I did not do this. I thought so little of myself, my work, that I let the patient in my care — my work — die on my watch.
— Marlon Brando
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“The real risk in this world has always been becoming one’s true self amidst all the uncertainties of existence. The “little self” or ego self feels that it can’t handle life’s uncertainties. Yet, the soul or deeper sense of our self is never simply defeated by the confusions of life. The knowing soul within us knows why we came here, and what we are intended to live for. Learning to live the life of the soul aligns us with paths of true meaning. While we are on those paths, we not only can survive the tensions of life, but we find ourselves able to contribute to the healing and renewal of life.”
— Michael Meade
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I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed…
