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"Much that may one day be possible can already be prepared by the solitary individual, and built with his own hands which make fewer mistakes. Therefore love your solitude and bear the pain of it without self-pity. The distance you feel from those around you should trouble you no more than your distance from the farthest stars. be glad that you are growing, and realize that you cannot take anyone with you: be gentle with those who stay behind. Be confident and calm before them, and don’t torment them with your doubts or distress them with your ambitions which they wouldn’t be able to comprehend. Find in a true and simple way what you have in common with them, which does not need to change when you yourself change and change again. When you see them, love life in a from that is not your own, and be kind to all the people who are afraid of their aloneness"

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Love the Solitude.

Worpswede, July 16, 1903

Letters to a young poet 

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darksilenceinsuburbia: Anna Ostoya. Exposures, 2011. Gold leaf, newspaper, and archival print on paper on canvas, 24 x 20 inches 61 x 50.8 cm.     and here
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"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do."

~   Hermann Hesse  (via ashisarah)

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darksilenceinsuburbia: Walt Kuhn. Chorus Captain. In Wikipedia and here
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"Enlightenment? How lethal it is to attach a label. Then you become somebody. At the moment of labeling, aliveness freezes into a concept. ‘My enlightenment experience!’ To be alive, fully alive, means flowing without hindrance—a vulnerable flow of aliveness with no resistance…It’s such a relief to realize we don’t have to be anything."

~   Toni Packer (via oceanandwave)
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