But The Greatest Of These Is Love.

The toughest lesson life teaches is the difference between who you wanted to be and who you actually are. And it can take a whole life to teach it…

…. I know now that roads choose us and what they unfold before us is not the person we want to be, but the person we already are, the person time slowly discloses to us.

—Richard Holloway; “Leaving Alexandria” p.10 -11 (via stillcuriosity)

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It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

—Thomas Moore (via nirvikalpa)

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