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The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?
May Sarton
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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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May Eleanor Sarton
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It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.
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all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.
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The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.
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No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
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In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.
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Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
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