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Under standing has replaced fear, but it may be that the shadows of ancient mysteries remain, so that the sight of high mountains rekindles in a different guise the same feelings of awe which our remote ancestors had in their presence.
“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
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Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
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“Rejoice with those who rejoice." I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?”
― Gilead
― Gilead
The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
Salvi’s 2025 Year in Books
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