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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.
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.
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.
As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.
As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.
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.
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
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.
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.
Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
