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• If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
• Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
• We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets…
• You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a…
• The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
• I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
• I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.
• I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the…
• Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where the beats…
• Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
• The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
• When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge,…

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