"In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law."

-- Horace Bushnell

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“Every few seconds a new book sees the light of day. Most of them will just be a part of the hum that makes us hard of hearing. Even the book is becoming an instrument of forgetting. A truly literary work comes into being as its creator's cry of protest against the forgetting that looms over him, over his predecessors and his contemporaries alike, and over his time, and the language he speaks. A literary work is something that defies death.”
“Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.”
“There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.”
“I hold all of the songs that I have had the pleasure of recording and performing in high regard.”
“My heart was a desert You planted a seed And this is the flower This hour of sweet fulfillment”
“So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.”

Source : Stephen Mitchell (1994). “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn”, p.65, Grove Press
“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.”

Source : 'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'
“Injuries are injuries, everybody has them. You play with it. I don't make excuses.”

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