"I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Coleman Barks

#Growing Up Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.”
“Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.”
“You should do what you have to do.”
“The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the sphere of human attainments, who are unregenerate or unspiritual, to dictate as to what her beliefs shall be.”

Source : Lewis Sperry Chafer (1947). “Systematic Theology”
“Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.”
“I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.”
“It is only possible to speak in the language and in the spirit of one's time.”
“There is not a moment without some duty.”

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