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| Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Dearly beloved--late again!America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone.Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor-I will need them all. Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.One can get as much exultation in losing oneself in
a little thing as a big thing.It is nice to think
how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy!One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ''in kind'' somewhere else in life.One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his own
vanity. Godlike, he blandly assumes that he can
express everything in words.The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask. The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. Total freedom is never what one imagines and, in fact, hardly exists. It comes as a shock in life to learn that we usually only exchange one set of restrictions for another. The second set, however, is self-chosen, and therefore easier to accept.We must relearn to be alone.What a commentary on our civilization, when
being alone is considered suspect; when one has
to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact
that one practices it --like a secret vice!When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.Writing is thinking. |
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