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Truth is Mystery
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a “logical consistency,” or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The reason our society doesn’t value older women is that it is a patriarchal society ‘run by men for men’ as Anne Baring called it. It is the male and his masculine mind who decides what is of value, namely, on the surface only materiality. Where only materiality is important; the survival instinct of hoarding, what is pleasing to the reproductive eye, power, and ‘…some fun.’ the deeper, more mature and less visible values of the beauty of the Soul; nurturing, kinship, spirit, nature, empathy or the Unity of the Heart, the values of older women who have recovered and reintegrated the Divine Feminine, are always missing.
— Marek Peter Kazeniec
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Love always finds you, no matter how hard you try to avoid it. It knows your hiding places. It’s smarter than you’ll ever be. And love is patient.
It waits. Sometimes it waits until you give up.
Just to prove you wrong.
— Katie Kacvinsky
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What does it mean to be “spiritual?” It means putting your feet on the ground. It means finding…
