"When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance."

-- Thomas Merton

#Life Quotes #Children Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.”
“English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.”
“I do well to interpret scripts to the best of my ability so even if I'm given a monster to play a love scene with, I will.”
“Words are containers for power”
“The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (2006). “The Old Testament in the Jewish Church: Twelve Lectures on Biblical Criticism”, p.272, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.”
“Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.”
“Iâ€™m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.”

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