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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.
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.
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there read more
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. -Charles Kuralt.
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.
Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
A pot clashes with its lid
In someones hurried kitchen
A telephone boils off the hook.
Outside, a car door
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A pot clashes with its lid
In someones hurried kitchen
A telephone boils off the hook.
Outside, a car door
An airplane pulls a drag of cloud.
muffled thunder.
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also read more
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.
