"[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Land Quotes #House Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistleâ€”it is in you.”
“You canâ€™t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.”
“I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in a row, there will be a consistency of tone.”
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart...”
“Who I am at the core and what I think represents me is really reflected in my family.”
“What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.”
“Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.”

Source : Interview with J. Flinn Akroyd, www.mungbeing.com.
“I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance.Â But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.”

Source : Piet Mondrian, Harry Holtzman, Martin S. James (1986). “The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian”, Twayne Pub

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