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In these pages, you will find a passage that emulates Jesus's calling of all of us out of the world to follow Him, leaving father and mother... Only with Thoreau it is SIMPLY (of course) to go for a walk---or is it? People say its his "screed" on the
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“She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.”
― The Once and Future King
― The Once and Future King
“Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for the rest, I will be cruel". That is hypocrisy.”
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“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment.”
― Living Buddha, Living Christ
― Living Buddha, Living Christ
“I know that I have life only insofar as I have love. I have no love except it come from Thee. Help me, please, to carry this candle against the wind.”
― This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems
― This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems
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