E3P2S: The Thing About Relocating Is It Makes All Too Clear What Is Truly Important

Thursday, October 7, 2010

The Thing About Relocating Is It Makes All Too Clear What Is Truly Important

"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend." --Plautus

"The only way to have a friend is to be one." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow." --Samuel Paterson

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need." --Epicurus

"But it is natural that such friendship should be infrequent, for such people are rare." --Aristotle

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E3P2S: The Blog

Facing life in genuine openness means realizing that as much as we do and must plan for our futures, we cannot know what will be, and thus we do not yet know how to engage in what has not yet come to us. Accepting this means seeing too that life is rich in possibility. "No one knows what the body can do." Embracing such possibility comes with facing the constraints of the life we've both chosen, and simply have, and seeing them as the rich earth across which we may expand our horizons. My writing here is an attempt to consider such richness, and embolden such possibility.
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“When people cease waiting for great leaders or prophets to solve entrenched problems and look, instead, within themselves, trusting their own thinking, believing in their own power, and to their families and communities for solutions, change will follow. In traditional indigenous communities, there is an understanding that our lives play themselves out within a set of reciprocal relationships. If each human being in the world could fully understand that we all are interdependent and responsible for one another, it would save the world.” —Wilma Mankiller
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