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WISDOM “Wisdom is bright and does not grow dim … and is found by those who look for her.” ~ Wisdom 6:12-13 Wisdom is not the gathering of more facts and information, as if that would eventually coalesce into truth. Wisdom is precisely a different way of seeing and knowing the “ten thousand things” in a new way. I suggest that wisdom is precisely the freedom to be truly present to what...
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““Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.” ”
– Groucho Marx, American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit (1890-1977)
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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us...”
– e. e. cummings (via elbows)
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“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via growing-orbits)
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“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but...”
– G.K. Chesterton (via metaconscious)
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“Here is something to fight; and when I wake early I say to myself Fight, fight....”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 11 October 1929 (via proustitute)
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kenanicole: inkmountain: Stephen Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak on The Colbert Report.
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“I have sea foam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.”
– Le Testament d’Orphée (via asphyxiations, butterflyflutterbygoodbye) (via arosary) (via mirrorgold)
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Haruki Murakami (via salveo)
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“While talking to my mother I neaten things. Spines of books by the phone....”
– Anne Carson, “Lines” (via words-in-lines)
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A Single Stream By Howard Thurman  It is a world-shattering disclosure that the stream of life is a single stream, though it takes various forms as it spills over into time and space. This disclosure is made to anyone whose discipline sends him on high adventure within his own spirit, his own inner life. By prayer, by the deep inward gaze which opens the eyes of the soul to behold the...
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“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via 1beauty)
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