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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain." Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson d May 15, 1886. She spent most of her life as a kind of recluse, hermit, or "stationary pilgrim" in her family home in Amherst, MA. Only after her death, and the discovery of 1,775 poems, was it clear how she had spent her time. Deceptively simple, they reflected
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Each life converges to some center Expressed or still-- Exists in every human nature A goal--- Admitted scarcely to itself, it may be-- Too fair For credibility's temerity To dare... Ungained, it may be, by life's low venture, But then-- Eternity enables the endeavoring Again.
Yes! Emily too knew things. I read it earlier this morn and thought I'll use it in my presentation at work in a couple of weeks, on positive disintegration as the development of our True Self.
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