"The important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not only a reality but the reality which gives meaning, shape and purpose to everything we do, everything we are."

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Source : John Main (2006). “Word Into Silence”, p.3, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

John Main

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“In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.”

Source : "Carice van Houten Talks to Cole Smithey About Making Paul Verhoeven's 'Black Book'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. April 1, 2007.
“Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.”
“Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, ManwÃ« and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.”
“Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.”
“Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.”
“What holy cities are to nomadic tribes â€” a symbol of race and a bond of union â€” great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.”
“It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.”

Source : Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.139, Basic Books
“You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.”

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