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When I rise uplet me rise up joyfullike a bird.When I falllet me fall without regretlike a leaf.

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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and exc...more

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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

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This is the man who will be my grandfather—the man who will be the man who was my grandfather. The tenses slur and slide under the pressure of collaps...more

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I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it a...more

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In time, against conscience and even will, my grief for him began to include grief for myself. Sometimes I would get the feeling that I was going to w...more

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I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones, our friends, our powers of work and pleasure, our...more

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History overflows time. Love overflows the allowance of the world. All the vessels overflow, and no end or limit stays put. Every shakable thing has g...more

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Back there in the beginning, as I see now, my life was all time and almost no memory. Though I knew early of death, it still seemed to be something th...more

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The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under the old cedars... I am findi...more

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But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time. It does not accept that limit. Of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love al...more

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A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent an...more

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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures...more

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It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either signifies nothing or has only a neg...more