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Aug 18, 2017

"Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. " --Leonard Cohen

Rosanne Cash on How Science Saved Her Life

In a prelude to her reading of Adrienne Rich's poetic tribute to Marie Curie, Roseanne Cash discusses the insights she gained as she battled to find a cure to her debilitating headaches. She realized the source of her creativity 'comes from the same room as her deepest pain' and argued that we have to listen deeply to our inner truth: "Persist and verify... The power that we abdicate to others out of our insecurity to others who insult us with their faux-intuition or their authoritarian smugness that comes back to hurt us so deeply... But the power we wrest from our own certitude that saves us."

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How can you use your moments of pain and darkness to be a source of light for others? Be still and listen to your own certitude.



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