"Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness...it is strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature." --Virginia Woolf, from her essay, On Being Ill
Someone Who Believed in Me
"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit." - E.E. Cummings
Tell us about a time someone taught you about your deep value and worth as a human being.
... [Continue Reading]Going Too Far
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” --T.S. Eliot
Tell me about a time you went too far.
... [Continue Reading]To Speak or Not to Speak
“Silence never brought us anything.” --Audre Lorde
