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As I see it, painting and religious experience are the same thing, and what we are all searching for is the understanding and realization of infinity.
“Life is a banquet. And the tragedy is that most people are starving to death.”
― Awareness
― Awareness
“People don’t really want to grow up, people don’t really want to change, people don’t really want to be happy. As someone so wisely said to me, “Don’t try to make them happy, you’ll only get in trouble. Don’t try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.”
― Awareness
― Awareness
“Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches. Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.”
― Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Life
― Kahlil Gibran's Little Book of Life
“Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.”
― The Art of Memoir
― The Art of Memoir
“If your God comes to your rescue and gets you out of trouble it is time you started looking for the true God.”
― Wellsprings: A Book of Spiritual Exercises
― Wellsprings: A Book of Spiritual Exercises
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