"We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable."

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Devendra Banhart

#Age Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Valuable Quotes

“Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim.”
“We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.”
“It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.”
“I write by hand in my notebooks and number the drafts, so I know how crazy I can get with this. Some writers, like my teacher Marilynne Robinson, she only writes one draft. I've thought about this a lot; I think it's because she writes it 80 times in her head before it comes out.”

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“Hillary [Clinton] has a really broad approach to engaging people around policy precisely because she understands that there are so many different dimensions to each issue.”
“You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.”
“Even when it feels as if we are being crushed by earthly troubles, we can remain joyful. If we keep our focus on God, our spirit cannot be trampled.”

Source : Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.93, WaterBrook
“A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “Razing the Bastions: On the Church in this Age”, p.18, Ignatius Press

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