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.
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
“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
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