“Despite how risky love is, how easily we are hurt, none of
us can run from risking the dangerous shoals of love, compassion, and openness
to others [and to ourselves], lest we live a sterile, unrelated life, locked
within the constricted frames of our history and our comfort zones. The paradox
of relationship will always be that rather than solve our problems for us,
relationship brings us new problems, new complexities, but that we also grow
immensely from these problems, these complexities. In short, the greatest gift
of relationship proves to be that as the result of encountering each other, we
are obliged to grow larger than we had planned.”
Hollis J. What matters most. Living a more considered life.
Gotham Books, NY, 2009.
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| "Stone Pears" 2003 by Artist: Nancy Camden Witt http://www.crossmillgallery.com/nancy.html |
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