"Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery."

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Source : Gerald G. May (2009). “Will and Spirit”, p.8, Harper Collins

Gerald May

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“While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.”
“I really do think that art can save you in some sense. It's the last meaning, unless you're religious-and I'm not religious. It's the only secular vehicle for transcendence we have. It's an immediate self-validating experience. It lifts you beyond your mortal clay.”
“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.”
“Big whorls have little whorls Which feed on their velocity And little whorls have lesser whorls, And so on to viscosity.”
“Even good girls have secrets, ones even their best friends must guess.”
“Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.”

Source : "White Oleander". www.imdb.com. 2002.
“Musically, I just think in terms of what's next. There's a lot of things I've always dreamed of doing, and I hope I get to them before I get too deaf.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.272, Delacorte Press

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