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What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort read more
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. -C. S. Lewis.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Finally, writing transforms.
People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the read more
People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
