The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anais NinRead
You live out the confusions until they become clear.
Interpretation
Confusion is a part of the learning process, which eventually leads to clarity.
In this quote, Anais Nin suggests that experiencing confusion is a natural and necessary part of life's journey. Rather than fearing or resisting confusion, one should embrace it as an opportunity for growth and discovery. As we navigate through our uncertainties, we gradually gain insights and understanding that help illuminate our paths.
In practice
Use this quote in a motivational speech about personal growth and self-discovery.
The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.
The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have told of my descent into a sensuality which was as dark, as magnificent, as wild, as my moments of mystic creation have been dazzling, ecstatic, exalted.
if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.
There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance, because we may never have been taught the meaning of the work of Christ for our present lives.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.
Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.
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