"enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them."

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Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.56, D & M Publishers

Emily Carr

#God Quotes #Tree Quotes #Dumb Quotes

“Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. If one feels that there is nothing 'we' can do -- but who is that 'we'? -- and nothing 'they' can do either -- and who are 'they' -- then one starts to get bored, cynical, apathetic.”
“During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?”
“Nothing's more attractive than a heavy praying woman,”
“For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between Christians and unbelievers, or between slave and free, or between male and female. But because he has risen above the tyranny of the passions and has fixed his attention on the single nature of man, he looks on all in the same way and shows the same disposition to all. For in him there is neither Greek nor Jew, male nor female, bond not free, but Christ who 'is all, and in all' (Col. 3:11; cf. Gal. 3:28).”
“It can't always be a honeymoon”

Source : Tony Parsons (2001). “Man and Boy: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”
“Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.”
“The design industry is really pathetic.”

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