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- The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
- When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is…
- When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a…
- When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work,…
- There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis.…
- We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.
- I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding…
- That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
- We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
- We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.
- But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the…
- The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
- That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.
- When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then…
- As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being…
- Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
- It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.
- Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
- It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you.…
- The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something…
- People are more than just the way they look.
- In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict…
- My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better…
- When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an…
- If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a…
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