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That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable bliss beyond…
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As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has…
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The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.
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If we truly think of Christ as our source of holiness, we shall refrain from anything wicked or impure in thought or…
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Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was…
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Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.
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Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.
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Since with all my soul I behold the face of my beloved, therefore all the beauty of his form is seen in…
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The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of…
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For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs…
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Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a…
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If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this,…
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Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are…
— Dalai Lama
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...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real…
— Freeman Dyson
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There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds…
— Carl Linnaeus
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Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free…
— E L Konigsburg
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Happiness and sorrow are twins, let them come and go like clouds.
— Yogaswami
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It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear…
— Frank Borman
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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.
— Mooji
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For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats though unseen among us; visiting This various world with as inconstant wing As summer…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through…
— Mark Haddon
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
— Nhat Hanh
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