"For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter."

-- Walter Benjamin

#Might Quotes #Messiah Quotes #Gates Quotes

“If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.”
“I think that a man should be caring.”
“We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings.”
“True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.”
“Speaking for myself I have influenced with lots of John Coltrane, Van Morrison, Joanna Newsom, Mississippi Records compilations, Simon & Garfunkel, Duncan Browne, Judee Sill, Sublime Frequencies releases, Ali Farka Touré, John Fahey, Flower Travellin' Band, Sagittarius, Toumani Diabaté, Philip Glass, lots of different stuff.”
“I love my kids with all my heart and the last thing I want to worry about is the air they breathe.”
“If you carry around anger and ugly emotions it will show on your face.”
“Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure ***** my progress in the divine life.”

Source : Thomas Cogswell Upham (1844). “Principles of the Interior Or Hidden Life: Designed Particularly for the Consideration of Those who are Seeking Assurance of Faith and Perfect Love”, p.283

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