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“A Biography in Five Chapters”
Portia Nelson Chapter One: I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost. …I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. Chapter Two: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don’t see it. I fall in again. I can’t believe I’m in this same place. But it isn’t my fault. It still takes a long time to get out. Chapter Three: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it there. I fall in. …It’s a habit … but my eyes are open. I know where I am. I get out immediately. Chapter Four: I walk down the same street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it. Chapter Five: I walk down a different street. |
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When I cannot look at your face
I look at your feet. Your feet of arched bone, your hard little feet. I know that they support you, and that your sweet weight rises upon them. Your waist and your breasts, the doubled purple of your nipples, the sockets of your eyes that have just flown away, your wide fruit mouth, your red tresses, my little tower. But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me. Pablo Neruda
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When I Started Loving Myself” - A Poem By Charlie Chaplin Written On His 70th Birthday On April 16, 1959:
When I Started Loving Myself I Understood That I’m Always And At Any Given Opportunity In The Right Place At The Right Time. And I Understood That All That Happens Is Right – From Then On I Could Be Calm. Today I Know: It’s Called TRUST. When I Started To Love Myself I Understood How Much It Can Offend Somebody When I Tried To Force My Desires On This Person, Even Though I Knew The Time Is Not Right And The Person Was Not Ready For It, And Even Though This Person Was Me. Today I Know: It’s Called LETTING GO When I Started Loving Myself I Could Recognize That Emotional Pain And Grief Are Just Warnings For Me To Not Live Against My Own Truth. Today I Know: It’s Called AUTHENTICALLY BEING. When I Started Loving Myself I Stopped Longing For Another Life And Could See That Everything Around Me Was A Request To Grow. Today I Know: It’s Called MATURITY. When I Started Loving Myself I Stopped Depriving Myself Of My Free Time And Stopped Sketching Further Magnificent Projects For The Future. Today I Only Do What’s Fun And Joy For Me, What I Love And What Makes My Heart Laugh, In My Own Way And In My Tempo. Today I Know: It’s Called HONESTY. When I Started Loving Myself I Escaped From All What Wasn’t Healthy For Me, From Dishes, People, Things, Situations And From Everyhting Pulling Me Down And Away From Myself. In The Beginning I Called It The “Healthy Egoism”, But Today I Know: It’s Called SELF-LOVE. When I Started Loving Myself I Stopped Wanting To Be Always Right Thus I’ve Been Less Wrong. Today I’ve Recognized: It’s Called HUMBLENESS. When I Started Loving Myself I Refused To Live Further In The Past And Worry About My Future. Now I Live Only At This Moment Where EVERYTHING Takes Place, Like This I Live Every Day And I Call It CONSCIOUSNESS. When I Started Loving Myself I Recognized, That My Thinking Can Make Me Miserable And Sick. When I Requested For My Heart Forces, My Mind Got An Important Partner. Today I Call This Connection HEART WISDOM. We Do Not Need To Fear Further Discussions, Conflicts And Problems With Ourselves And Others Since Even Stars Sometimes Bang On Each Other And Create New Worlds. Today I Know: THIS IS LIFE! |
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![]() "Don't look at your form,
however ugly or beautiful. Look at love and at the aim of your quest. ... O you whose lips are parched, keep looking for water. Those parched lips are proof that eventually you will reach the source." RUMI |
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somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose or if your wish be to close me,i and my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands e.e. cummings
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![]() Camomile Tea by Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) Outside the sky is light with stars; There’s a hollow roaring from the sea. And, alas! for the little almond flowers, The wind is shaking the almond tree. How little I thought, a year ago, In the horrible cottage upon the Lee That he and I should be sitting so And sipping a cup of camomile tea. Light as feathers the witches fly, The horn of the moon is plain to see; By a firefly under a jonquil flower A goblin toasts a bumble-bee. We might be fifty, we might be five, So snug, so compact, so wise are we! Under the kitchen-table leg My knee is pressing against his knee. Our shutters are shut, the fire is low, The tap is dripping peacefully; The saucepan shadows on the wall Are black and round and plain to see.
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![]() Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? |
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