Self-Improvement - Tony Hoagland

[asthenos]

Just before she flew off like a swan

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[annani]

"Sometimes we are asked
to get good at something we have
no talent for,
or we excel at something we will never
have the opportunity to prove.

Often we ask ourselves
to make absolute sense
out of what just happens,
and in this way, what we are practicing

is suffering,
which everybody practices,
but strangely few of us
grow graceful in."

I fell in love with those lines years back. I still have it on my corkboard. :)