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What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our continual busyness? Only when we step away from our frenzy can we know.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

Topics: Away Busyness Death Drive Emotions Experience Fantasies Frenzy Hitch Know Only Our Ourselves Step Themselves Us Were Wishes Working Would

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A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.

~David Whyte

Topics: Away Beautiful Beauty Been Busyness Center Even Everything Forgetting Good Lives Makes Midst Our Our Lives Poem Reflected Sense Story Taken Ugliness

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When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

~George Carey

Topics: Busyness Fire Goes Out Over Prayer Takes

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