“ Faith isn't what you think, what you 'believe'. It's what you do. ”
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“ You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil. ”
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“ Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied. ”
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“ I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know. ”
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“ For moderns for us there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a thought unfurls, figures of speech budding and blossoming, articulation drifting like spent petals onto the dark table we all once gathered around to talk and talk, letting time get the better of us. _Just taking our time_, as we say. That is, letting time take us. "Can you say," I once inquired of a sixtyyear old cloistered nun who had lived (vibrantly, it seemed) from teh age of nineteen in her monastery cell, "what the core of contemplative life is?" "Leisure," she said, without hesitation, her china blue eyes cheerfully steady on me. I suppose I expected her to say, "Prayer." Or maybe "The search for God." Or "Inner peace." Inner peace would have been good. One of the bigticket items of spirituality. She saw I didn't see. "It takes time to do this," she said finally. Her "this" being the kind of work that requires abdication from time's industrial purpose (doing things, getting things). By choosing leisure she had bid farewell to the fevered enterprise of gettingandspending whereby, as the poet said, we lay waste our powers. ”
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“ By choosing leisure she had bid farewell to the fevered enterprise of getting-and-spending whereby, as the poet said, we lay waste our powers. ”
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“ By choosing leisure she had bid farewell to the fevered enterprise of getting-and-spending whereby, as the poet said, we lay waste our powers. ”
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“ The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times. ”
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“ The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times. ”
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“ Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. ”
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“ The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times. ”
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“ The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times. ”
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“ The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times. ”
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“ Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. ”
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“ Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. ”
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“ Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. ”
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“ Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. ”
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“ The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times. ”
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“ The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times. ”
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“ The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to sustain a people in grave times. ”
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