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"“The waters of the Jordan coming down…” This formulation harbors an etymological pun. The Jordan, “Yarden,” is called that because it comes down (y-r-d) from mountain heights in the north to the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the face of the earth. — Joshua 3:13" — Aug 26, 2025 07:49AM
"“The waters of the Jordan coming down…” This formulation harbors an etymological pun. The Jordan, “Yarden,” is called that because it comes down (y-r-d) from mountain heights in the north to the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the face of the earth. — Joshua 3:13" — Aug 26, 2025 07:49AM
“It’s hard to head home without succumbing to nostalgia, standing where so many versions of yourself once stood,”
― Memorial
― Memorial
“You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried to in my time to be a philosopher; but I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.”
― The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
― The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
“Expectation is a powerful human motivation. Living between the now and the not yet can be a condition of great openness to the future during which the awaited future event influences and shapes present behavior.”
― Refocusing on the Future: Letters of Hope and Expectation
― Refocusing on the Future: Letters of Hope and Expectation
“In her third chapter, Bishop Budde quotes David Whyte:
‘In all our worlds, give up the one to which you belong”
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‘In all our worlds, give up the one to which you belong”
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“It is important to recognize that Blake was a troubled spirit, subject to deep psychic stresses, with what we would now call paranoid and schizoid tendencies that were sometimes overwhelming. During his life he was often accused of madness, but the artist Samuel Palmer, who knew him well, remembered him as ‘one of the sanest, if not the most thoroughly sane man I have ever known.’ And a Baptist minister replied, when asked if he thought Blake was cracked, ‘Yes, but his is a crack that lets in the light.”
― Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
― Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
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