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My Soul is in a Hurry

I counted my years and realized
that I have less time to live than the time I have lived so far.
I have more past than future.
I feel like that boy who had a bowl of cherries.
At first he gobbled them,
but when he realize that there were only a few left,
he began to taste them intensely.

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i want to apologize

i want to apologize to all the women
i have called pretty.
before i’ve called them intelligent or brave.
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you are born with
is the most you have to be proud of
when your spirit has crushed mountains
from now on i will say things like, you are resilient
or, you are extraordinary.
not because i don’t think you are pretty.
but because you are so much more than that.

rupi kaur

How to Open Your Heart

Do not try to open your heart now.
That would be a subtle movement of aggression towards you immediate, embodied existence.
Never tell a closed heart it must open;
it will shut more tightly to protect itself,
feeling your resistance.
A heart only unfurls when the conditions are right;
your demand for openness invites closure.
This is the supreme intelligence of the heart.

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Albert Einstein and the God of Spinoza

When Einstein gave lectures at U.S. universities, the recurring question that students asked him most was “Do you believe in God?” And he always answered: “I believe in the God of Spinoza.

Baruch de Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher considered one of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy, along with René Descartes.

According to Spinoza, God would say

Stop praying and pounding your chest.
What I want you to do is go out into the world and enjoy your life. I want you to sing, have fun and enjoy everything I’ve made for you.

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Thank you Barbie

“It is literally impossible to be a woman.

You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don’t think you’re good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we’re always doing it wrong.

We have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin.

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Friendship

is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness. Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses, as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in turn.

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