Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that the more we share our abundance, the more there is to share, and it highlights the infinite nature of resources when approached with generosity.
Anne Sexton's quote emphasizes the idea that true abundance comes from generosity and sharing. When we give of our resources, whether they be love, time, or material wealth, we create a cycle of abundance that not only benefits others but also leaves us with an ever-increasing reservoir. It speaks to the interconnectedness of humanity and the richness that comes from communal support and the act of giving.
In practice
In a speech about community service, one might say, 'As Anne Sexton wisely noted, abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains, urging us to give generously.'
The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.
Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.
Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.
I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...
We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!
We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous - almost of pedantic - veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.
You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.
if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.
When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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