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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“THE GUEST HOUSE This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
Rumi, The Essential Rumi

Alvin Plantinga
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1”
Alvin Plantinga, Knowledge and Christian Belief

Mary Gordon
“A fatherless girl thinks all things are possible, and nothing is safe.”
Mary Gordon, The Company of Women

“When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular,and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

from "When the death comes”
Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“Therefore, dark past,
I’m about to do it.
I’m about to forgive you

for everything.”
Mary Oliver

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