“What does it mean, say the words, that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it? What is the gift that I should bring to the world? What is the life that I should live?”
― Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
― Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
“Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.”
― The Magnificent Defeat
― The Magnificent Defeat
“For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.”
― The Magnificent Defeat
― The Magnificent Defeat
“For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our words.
—Opus paramirum, I:ix”
― Paracelsus: Essential Readings
—Opus paramirum, I:ix”
― Paracelsus: Essential Readings
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