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""It is universal resurrection that synthesizes and really restores one humanity as the subject of the achievements of history, although in a different dimension of being. ... [For 'immanent progressivism'] there is no progress, for there is no one to progress in the absence of a unique, continuous humanity not subject to a temporal end." 344" May 16, 2026 09:25PM

 
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""Our passions grow fiercer when left idle through lack of contact with other people. Even that shadow of patience and long-suffering which we thought we possessed while we mixed with our brethren is lost in our isolation through not being exercised. Poisonous creatures...in the desert display their fury only when they detect someone approaching; and likewise passion-filled men..."

- John Cassian, Institutes"
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David Bentley Hart
“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”
David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss

Vincent van Gogh
“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.”
Vincent van Gogh

William Faulkner
“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Emily Dickinson
“This world is just a little place, just the red in the sky, before the sun rises, so let us keep fast hold of hands, that when the birds begin, none of us be missing.”
Emily Dickinson

C.G. Jung
“When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim.”
C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

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