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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Beautiful. I never thought about longing as so decisive, it’s own powerful emotion and how singular it is.

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ars poetica's avatar

longing is an immense reserve of active power, touched with the creative, the tender, the divine. when we long, we move toward. we reach. it is held in the roots of the Word: form the Old English langian, meaning ‘to grow long,’ and the German langen—to reach, to extend. in Hebrew, it comes from the same root as the word for passion. The place you suffer, in other words, is the same place you reach from: the same place you care profoundly enough to act. to grow long.

thank you for your Words <3

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