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"We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all. We sleep to time’s Hurdy Gurdy; we wake, if we ever wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of light uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it’s time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it’s time to break our necks for home." — Apr 10, 2026 11:49AM
"We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all. We sleep to time’s Hurdy Gurdy; we wake, if we ever wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores of light uncreated, then when the dazzling dark breaks over the far slopes of time, then it’s time to toss things, like our reason, and our will; then it’s time to break our necks for home." — Apr 10, 2026 11:49AM
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"It was always the excesses that we wished to oppose, rather than the whole program. The whole spirit that produced the first steps A,B,C, and D out of which the excesses were bound to come. It is so much easier to oppose the excesses about which one can, of course, do nothing, than it is to oppose the whole spirit about which one can do something every day." — Apr 06, 2026 05:51PM
"It was always the excesses that we wished to oppose, rather than the whole program. The whole spirit that produced the first steps A,B,C, and D out of which the excesses were bound to come. It is so much easier to oppose the excesses about which one can, of course, do nothing, than it is to oppose the whole spirit about which one can do something every day." — Apr 06, 2026 05:51PM
The Bible fails to offer girls—or anyone—a consistent message regarding sexual morals and God’s priorities. Instead of learning about Jezebel, for example, girls could be taught about the woman in the Song of Songs, a love poem attributed
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“God's lucky.
The goddess of luck is fortune.
Fortune is the sister of fate.
Fate is the divine order.
And the divine order is God.
So as far as I can tell if you believe in luck you believe in God.”
― Greenlights
The goddess of luck is fortune.
Fortune is the sister of fate.
Fate is the divine order.
And the divine order is God.
So as far as I can tell if you believe in luck you believe in God.”
― Greenlights
“I’d rather lose money havin fun than make money being bored,”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
“Learning stuff was less important than learning about oneself. Exploration is not just a whimsical luxury of education; it is a central benefit.”
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
“We all have scars, we gonna have more. Rather than struggle against time and waste it, let’s dance with time and redeem it. Cause we don’t live longer when we try not to die. We live longer when we are too busy living.”
― Greenlights
― Greenlights
“If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly.”
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
― Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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