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“A man ought to compare advantageously with a river, an oak, or a mountain. He shall have not less the flow, the expansion, and the resistance of these.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like that. And think it applies to a woman as well as it does to a man. Next time I am setting goals for myself I want to add these to the list:
* Let the life flow through me with the grace and ease of a flowing river,
* Let my thoughts and perceptions reach out, and branch to explore ever finer qualities of all the space surrounding, as do the limbs of a great tree.
* Let me be as firm and sure in who I am as is a standing mountain. Let the forces that would erode me know that it’s a task requiring millennia.