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It is like leaning over the edge of a canyon and feeling the wind whip by. Any illusions about your significance are wiped away; you realize how puny and inconsequential you are. And yet the beauty is so intoxicating that you only crave
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the "fear" of God is something I have spent a lot of time contemplating lately and wondering about. I have wondered if the modern conceptualization of "fear" is sufficient for the concept and if I have been left, once again, in a cavernous disadvantage by the limitation of modern English.
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“It is like leaning over the edge of a canyon and feeling the wind whip by. Any illusions about your significance are wiped away; you realize how puny and inconsequential you are. And yet the beauty is so intoxicating that you only crave more. You long to have a bigger heart that could take it all in. That’s a taste of what “the fear of the Lord” means.”
― The Lost Gospel of Mary
― The Lost Gospel of Mary
“What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
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but in the silence between.”
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