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“Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Night and Sleep

“If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level — indeed in the molecule itself — it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form. . . . Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“The whole life lies in the verb seeing.”
― Teilhard de Chardin

“By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Wine is bottled poetry.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.”
― Thomas Moore

“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
― Toni Morrison