“Art is the conversation between lovers.
Art offers an opening for the heart.
True art makes the divine silence in the soul
Break into applause.
Art is, at last, the knowledge of
Where we are standing –
Where we are standing
In this Wonderland
When we rip off all our clothes
And this blind man's patch, veil,
That got tied across our brow.
Art is the conversation between lovers.
True art awakes the
Extraordinary
Ovation.”
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Art offers an opening for the heart.
True art makes the divine silence in the soul
Break into applause.
Art is, at last, the knowledge of
Where we are standing –
Where we are standing
In this Wonderland
When we rip off all our clothes
And this blind man's patch, veil,
That got tied across our brow.
Art is the conversation between lovers.
True art awakes the
Extraordinary
Ovation.”
―
“Consciousness means that we have developed an acute awareness of both our suffering and our humanity: what happens to us and what we have a right to. We know we are human and so the suffering (inferior status, exploitation, sexual abuse) is an intolerable series of violations that must be stopped. Experiencing suffering as such— instead of becoming numb— forces us to act human: to resist oppression, to demand fairness, to create new social arrangements that include us as human. When humans rebel against suffering, the heroes of history, known and unknown, are born.”
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“People care much more for how things look than how things are.”
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“None of us are ordinary – we just settle into ordinary lives.”
― The Spell of Summer
― The Spell of Summer
“In love, the Sufi meeting house
And wine-shop are one place;
As are all places where we find
The loved one's radiant race;
And what the Sufis make a show of
Can be found equally
Among the monks, before their cross,
Within a monastery.”
― Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
And wine-shop are one place;
As are all places where we find
The loved one's radiant race;
And what the Sufis make a show of
Can be found equally
Among the monks, before their cross,
Within a monastery.”
― Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz
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