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Standing on the shoulders of giants...

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The Dance of Intimacy: People Are Like Porcupines on a Cold Winter’s Night

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, has chosen a “word” that best describes her life.  It is “attraversiamo.”  In Italian it means “let’s cross over”. 

Finding the courage or balance in life to “cross over” from being stuck in our pain, problems and patterns fits perfectly along with the parable Gilbert is speaking of in this video.  I find her journey inspirational and her writing ingenious.

Coincidence? Did you know that Freud kept a bronze porcupine on his desk in the study of his London home (see below). It is said the dilemma of the porcupine, as told by Schopenhauer, may be the basis of the Freud’s relationship theory.  Read more


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Gloria Steinem’s List of Top 10 Fearbusters 


10. Reverse the golden rule. For women, treat ourselves as well as we treat others.
9. Fear is a sign of growth. If you are afraid, it means you are stretching and doing something you haven’t done before. (This is in regard to endeavors, not people)
8. Anger is an energy cell, it is precious.
7. We (women) need to make sure we are using our own unique talents, and not imitating others’ talents.
6. Measure yourself by the real, not by the ideal.
5. Look for allies everywhere. Do not be bound by conventional hierarchies.
4. What is viewed as a disability – being “feminine” – has enormous advantages within it.
3. Just about everyone can learn to change, even us and even them.
2. Ask for help. Surround yourself with people who make you feel smart, not dumb.
1. Remember that our humanity, our equality, our self-determination is the key to everything.

Web Source: http://www.paconferenceforwomen.org/gloria-steinem%E2%80%99s-list-of-top-10-fearbusters/

Gloria Steinem’s List of Top 10 Fearbusters

10. Reverse the golden rule. For women, treat ourselves as well as we treat others.

9. Fear is a sign of growth. If you are afraid, it means you are stretching and doing something you haven’t done before. (This is in regard to endeavors, not people)

8. Anger is an energy cell, it is precious.

7. We (women) need to make sure we are using our own unique talents, and not imitating others’ talents.

6. Measure yourself by the real, not by the ideal.

5. Look for allies everywhere. Do not be bound by conventional hierarchies.

4. What is viewed as a disability – being “feminine” – has enormous advantages within it.

3. Just about everyone can learn to change, even us and even them.

2. Ask for help. Surround yourself with people who make you feel smart, not dumb.

1. Remember that our humanity, our equality, our self-determination is the key to everything.

Web Source: http://www.paconferenceforwomen.org/gloria-steinem%E2%80%99s-list-of-top-10-fearbusters/

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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You can’t always get what you want, But if you try sometimes, you might find, You get what you need…” - Mick Jagger

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If the world puts you on a road you do not like, if you look ahead and do not want that destination which is being offered and you look behind and you do not want to return to your place of departure, step off the road. Build yourself a new path.
    Maya Angelou

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It is always my wish that you might find enough patience within yourself to endure, and enough innocence to have faith. It is my wish that you might gain more and more trust in whatever is difficult for you, in your aloneness, among other things. Allow life to happen to you. Believe me, life is right in all cases.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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Although there are many books I would like to add…  a summer reading list that includes To Kill A Mockingbird, Vally of the Dolls and Letters to a Young Poet, MUST BE A REALLY GOOD ONE… 
Tory Burch’s Blog - Summer Reading List
LIFE CHANGING BOOKS:
The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life, Deepak Chopra
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life, Justine Picardie
Rotten Ralph, Jack Gantos
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Mo Willems
The Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann
Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
The Image, Daniel Boorstin Dubliners, James Joyce
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
Who Do You Think You Are?, Alice Munro Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
 START READING NOW: 
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, David McCullough
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra Fuller
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Age of Greed, Jeff Madrick
Lightning People, Christopher Bollen
Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway
The Submission, Amy Waldman
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, David Eagleman
Thoughts Without Cigarettes, Oscar Hijuelos
Bossypants, Tina Fey
The Long Goodbye, Meghan O’Rourke
Snobs, Julian Fellowes Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
A Voyage for Madmen, Peter Nichols
History of a Pleasure Seeker, Richard Mason
Delivering Happiness: A Path To Profits, Passion and Purpose, Tony Hsieh
See the full list… click here.

Although there are many books I would like to add…  a summer reading list that includes To Kill A Mockingbird, Vally of the Dolls and Letters to a Young Poet, MUST BE A REALLY GOOD ONE…

Tory Burch’s Blog - Summer Reading List

LIFE CHANGING BOOKS:

The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life, Deepak Chopra

Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life, Justine Picardie

Rotten Ralph, Jack Gantos

Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus, Mo Willems

The Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann

Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West, Cormac McCarthy

The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

The Image, Daniel Boorstin Dubliners, James Joyce

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke

A Separate Peace, John Knowles

Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell

Who Do You Think You Are?, Alice Munro Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger

 START READING NOW:

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, David McCullough

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra Fuller

A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

Devil in the White City, Erik Larson

Age of Greed, Jeff Madrick

Lightning People, Christopher Bollen

Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway

The Submission, Amy Waldman

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, David Eagleman

Thoughts Without Cigarettes, Oscar Hijuelos

Bossypants, Tina Fey

The Long Goodbye, Meghan O’Rourke

Snobs, Julian Fellowes Zeitoun, Dave Eggers

A Voyage for Madmen, Peter Nichols

History of a Pleasure Seeker, Richard Mason

Delivering Happiness: A Path To Profits, Passion and Purpose, Tony Hsieh

See the full list… click here.

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