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Seeing
“Seeing is of course very much a matter of verbalization. Unless I call my attention to what passes before my eyes, I simply won’t see it.”
~ Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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“It is not what you keep, but what you give that makes you happy. We make our living by what we get. We make our life by what we give. Whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead, and no man yet to be born can [...]
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Our Power, The care of our soul
So we must consider that a contest, the greatest of all contests, lies before us, for which we must do all things, and, in preparation for it, must strive to the best of our powers, and must associate with poets and writers of prose and orators and with all men from whom there is any [...]
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And people of moderate means and average powers of mind would do far more real good by merely carrying out stern principles of justice and honesty in common matters of trade, than by the most ingenious schemes of extended philanthropy, or vociferous declarations of theological doctrine. There are three weighty matters of the law–justice, mercy, [...]
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Wisdom: May 2, 2007
Most people are not for you or against you, they are thinking about themselves. –Beth Anne Fennelly
At the end of every road you meet yourself. -SN Behrman
Whatever striking things I have done in life, I have not done prompted by reason, but prompted by instinct, I would say, God.
Life is not to be known, but [...]
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the journey: April 15
I am not the first
to feel caught in the world
And I won’t be saying anything
new.
Live the questions now. –Rilke
NOT I-NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you,
You must travel it for yourself. –Whitman
Life’s most urgent question is, what are you doing for others? –MLK Jr.
The only journey is the one within. –Rilke
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Fuel for the fire
“When you’re up to your ass in aligators, it’s hard to remember that your purpose is draining the swamp.”
– George Napper
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Tying Knots
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and Hang on!
– Thomas Jefferson, a Knot Babble enthusiast
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Gravity and Grace
From Gravity and Grace:
I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
– Simone Weil (1909 – 1943) a French social and religious philosopher
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Ambition
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
–Mark Twain
Without vision the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
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