James Joyce has a passage in A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man in which he says “Do you know what Ireland is? Ireland is an old sow that eats her farrow.”
He says your ethnic inheritance. He's talking about Irish nationalism is like nets holding you back.
Your challenge is to learn how to turn those nets into wings and thereby to fly.
Flying into the open skies of modern society.
Don't be your grandfather, don't be your father.
Don't wear your things so heavily that it keeps you from being open to everything new in the world.
Wear it lightly.
Everybody comes from somewhere, but it doesn't have to be where you end up.
You are this wonderfully blessed human being in the middle of the 21st century.
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James Joyce has a passage in A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man in which he says “Do you know what Ireland is? Ireland is an old sow that eats her farrow.”
He says your ethnic inheritance. He's talking about Irish nationalism is like nets holding you back.
Your challenge is to learn how to turn those nets into wings and thereby to fly.
Flying into the open skies of modern society.
Don't be your grandfather, don't be your father.
Don't wear your things so heavily that it keeps you from being open to everything new in the world.
Wear it lightly.
Everybody comes from somewhere, but it doesn't have to be where you end up.
You are this wonderfully blessed human being in the middle of the 21st century.
Don't miss it. Don't live blinkeredly.
Don't live small. Live big.
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