“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
– Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), from Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
– Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), from Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“ “But I no longer want to edit my behavior, twisting myself up like a pretzel.“
“You won't ,” she assured me. "Now that you've tasted the other, you won't go backwards. It'll be better than ever, you'll see. Just let whatever comes flow through you and then away.
Everyone is after the same thing, y'know. It's called intimacy. The only way to experience it is to be yourself.” “
-Joan Anderson, in A Year By The Sea, p.138