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The
natural human spirit is irrepressibly radical; it wants the
unattainable, yearns for the impractical, is willing to risk
the improper. But as we conform ourselves to the practicalities
and proprieties of efficiency, we restrict the space between
desire and control; we confine our intention to an ever decreasing
range of possibilities. The choices we make, and therefore the
way we feel about ourselves, are determined less by what we
long for and more by what is controllable and acceptable to
the world around us. After enough of this, we lose our passion.
We forget who we are......We need to make room for that which
is impractical and improper. We must give our intentions room
to breathe.
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Gerald May, The Awakened Heart.
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