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making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

May Sarton

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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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Poet
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May Eleanor Sarton
Anywhere
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Order
Time
Sacrament
Sacraments
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Disorder

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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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The body is a universe in itself and must be held as sacred as anything in creation....It is dangerous to forget the body as sacramental.
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It feels a long way up and down from zero.
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For me the moral dilemma this past year has been how to make peace with the unacceptable.
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In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
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There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .
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I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .
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In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
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The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.
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People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.
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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
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There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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We only keep what we lose.
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