"Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence."

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David Steindl-Rast

#Encounters Quotes #Sacred Quotes #Divine Quotes

“Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.”
“It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naÃ¯ve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physical/chemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.”
“There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.”

Source : "Classical 'Rock Star' Joshua Bell Takes On Conducting". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 24, 2012.
“There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war]really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".”

Source : "I am the perfect example of censorship in the United States". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2001.
“I don't feel anti-love. I feel suspicious of love, and I feel suspicious of what it means to be in love. And I also feel suspicious of what it means to feel pretend love for someone.”
“We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.”

Source : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue
“I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.”

Source : "Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2009.
“If your business is static, you're likely to have issues.”

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