"The awakening passed from simple recognition of my need for God at the center of my life, to a depth where the will is stirred And that is a deeper place by far. That is the place of response, of unifying one's heart, mind, soul and feet around a decision."

-- Sue Monk Kidd

#Heart Quotes #Simple Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Most of all, our troops from Alabama said they appreciate the care packages from folks back home.”
“The monsters in my head are scared of love...”

Source : Song: Revolution
“Iâ€™m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than Iâ€™d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, Iâ€™ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. Iâ€™ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.”
“Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world. That is the one essential piece of information, the one great secret, offered by any encounter with the woods or the mountains or the ocean or any wilderness or chunk of nature or patch of night sky.”
“So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he is quickening a false devotion almost all over the world, increasing the number of pilgrims to Mecca, multiplying the offerings to the most famous impostors, inducing men to build mosques for Mohammedan worship, causing the invention of new superstitions among the dervishes - in a word, stimulating many abominable things which otherwise might not have been.”
“My specialty is mythology.There are artifacts like the hallows scattered through just about every mythology.However, what makes the Celtic hallows so interesting is that they are a self-contained group of objects.”
“The soul is the weariest part of the body.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”
“And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.”

Source : 'Journeys and Places' (1937) 'Hölderlin's Journey'

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