I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
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You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world!
You're the best Mom in the whole, wide world!
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," read more
It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between "happens" and "is," on the one hand, and "ought," on the other hand.
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into read more
I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that read more
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
