"May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children."

– Rainer Maria Rilke

How do you feel about your inner child, and what do they need from you?

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"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."

– Elizabeth Gilbert

What does being loved well look like for you?

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"Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?"

– Jon Kabat-Zinn

When you watch your anger, how much is the present feeling and how much is thought arriving afterward to name it?

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"One instant, you're just a regular Joe, schlepping through your mundane life, and then suddenly - what is this? - nothing has changed, yet you feel stirred by a grace, swollen with wonder, overflowing with bliss. Everything - for no reason whatsoever - is perfect."

– Elizabeth Gilbert

What took your breath away today, even briefly?

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"Mountains and waters, though silent, speak volumes."

– Li Bai (Selected Poems)

When is your silence wisdom, and when is it avoidance dressed as restraint?

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"Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem or invention."

– Rollo May (The Courage to Create)

What feels impossible in your art right now that you could step one inch toward?

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"We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement."

– Hermann Hesse

When are you most fully yourself, and who are you with?

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"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted."

– Derek Walcott (Collected Poems)

Which hard and unbending thing in you is closer to breaking than the soft thing you despise?

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"Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting."

– Khaled Hosseini (A Thousand Splendid Suns)

What in you would settle, like mud in still water, if you only had the patience to wait?

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"A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face."

– Jorge Luis Borges (The Aleph)

How foolish is it to map out your whole life when you do not even own tomorrow?

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"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

What's the kindest truthful version of what you want to say?

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"Be prepared. A dog is adorable and noble.A dog is a true and loving friend. A dogis also a hedonist."

– Mary Oliver

What's one thing you can do to be a better friend?

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"Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are."

– Julio Cortazar (Hopscotch)

If you became whatever you most often think, who would you be turning into?

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"I visit the orchards of God and look at the spheric productAnd look at quintillions ripened, and look at quintillions green."

– Walt Whitman

Which seeds in yourself have you been watering, and which have you let grow wild by neglect?

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"Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant."

– Joan Didion (The Year of Magical Thinking)

What in your life have you stopped noticing because it never leaves?

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"From the place where we are right / flowers will never grow / in the spring."

– Yehuda Amichai (Selected Poems)

How deep into the very ground of your heart has the reason that bids you create spread its roots?

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"I have a little dog who likes to nap with me.He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck.He is sweeter than soap.He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace,which can't even bark..."

– Mary Oliver

What do you admire about your partner that you don't say enough?

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"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea."

– Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek)

What is the smallest thing that made you feel alive this week?

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"Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it."

– Oscar Wilde

What does choosing yourself look like in the smallest, most ordinary ways?

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"There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside them. The breakfast smell struck me like that."

– Sue Monk Kidd

What new and unknown thing has entered you in the moments you were quick to call only sadness?

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