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“Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“I asked you, baby,
If you understood-
You told me that you didn't,
But you thought you would.”
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If you understood-
You told me that you didn't,
But you thought you would.”
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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
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“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activism neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.”
― Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
― Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
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