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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.
“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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“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
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