Anyone can revolt.
It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and gifts.
Georges Rouault – with thanks to Julia for sending it to me.
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Sunday Quote: Things are never 100% clear
The point is to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually,without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Kindness
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.
Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore
only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and to purchase bread
only kindness that raises its head
from the world to say
it is I you have been looking for
and goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.
Naomi Shihab Nye, Words from Under the Words
Sunday Quote: Who you are
“True culture is in the mind, the mind,” he said, and tapped his head, “the mind.”
“It’s in the heart,” she said, “and in how you do things, and how you do things is because of who you are.”
Flannery O’Connor, Everything that Rises must Converge
Why we miss real understanding
When time is reduced to linear progress,
it is emptied of presence.
John O’Donoghue
When different worlds collide
When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one out by the other;
regard them as two different facets, or two successive stages, of the same reality, a reality convincingly human just because it is complex.
Marguerite Yourcenar
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