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The Authenticity Project
Clare Pooley
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“The truth often isn't pretty. It's not aspirational. It doesn't fit neatly into a little square on Instagram.”
“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. —LEONARD COHEN”
“Meet force with softness. Recipe for life. Now you understand.’ And, strangely, he did.”
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift,” she’d chant to herself as she brushed her teeth. “It’s not happy people who are grateful, it’s grateful people who are happy,” she’d say as she brushed her hair.”
“Then he’d discovered that routines were crucial. They created buoys he could cling to to keep himself afloat.”
“When we first come here in 1973, two men came to restaurant and say, ‘Go back to China and take your filthy, foreign food with you.’ I say, ‘You are angry. Anger comes from stomach. Sit. I bring you soup. For free. It will make you feel better.’ They ate my wonton soup. Recipe from my grandmother. They have been customers of restaurant for forty years. Meet force with softness. Recipe for life. Now you understand.” And, strangely, he did.”
“Tai chi is about the balance of yin and yang. If you use hardness to resist force, then both sides will break. Tai chi meets hardness with softness, so incoming force exhausts itself. It is philosophy for life also. You understand?”
“Preparation is the key to effective spontaneity.”
“Perhaps the compulsion to fill every inch of space was because it made him feel less alone,”
“Mother is a verb, not a noun.”
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