Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
- Thomas Moore
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Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life... It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That... A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that... Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness.... Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real... The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their... You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will... When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their... Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness,... How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without... From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all...
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