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“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
― Sweet Thursday
― Sweet Thursday
“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
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some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
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“What ages is not merely your functions and organs, but the whole of your nature, that particular person you have come to be and already were years ago.”
― The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life
― The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life
“It seems, as one becomes older, / That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence,” wrote T. S. Eliot. Four Quartets, which meditates on time, age, and memory, goes on to say, “We had the experience but missed the meaning, / And approach to the meaning restores the experience / In a different form, beyond any meaning.”
― The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life
― The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life
“We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.”
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