And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.

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“Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again.
And in between the amazing and the awful it’s ordinary and mundane and routine.
Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during
the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul healing, amazing, awful,
ordinary life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.”

~ LR Knost

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The healing of our present woundedness . . .

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“The healing of our present woundedness may lie in recognizing and reclaiming
the capacity we have to heal each other, the enormous power in the simplest of
human relationships: the strength of a touch, the blessing of forgiveness, the
grace of someone else taking you just as you are and finding in you an
unsuspected goodness. Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from
our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal.
Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and
trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded
people can best be healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can
understand what is needed, for the healing of suffering is compassion, not
expertise.”

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

Art by Lucy Campbell
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