"There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at a flower, its radiance, its fragrance, its stillness is another moment's experience of something deeper within. When we hold a baby, when we hear extraordinary music, when we look into the eyes of a great saint, what draws us is that deep homesickness for our true nature, for the peace and healing that is our birthright. This homesickness for God directs us toward the healing we took birth for."

-- Stephen Levine

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“Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mÃ©lÃ©tÃ¨ (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.”

Source : Luce Irigaray (2002). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.27, Columbia University Press
“A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.”
“I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.”

Source : M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.402, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We live in an unsafe world.”

Source : "It’s Time" by Nia Vardalos, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2011.
“Democracy is more than a ballot box.”
“[About Francis Baily] The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of the founders of the Astronomical Society, and his attention to its affairs was as accurate and minute as if it had been a firm of which he was the chief clerk, with expectation of being taken into partnership.”
“The best ideas emerge when very different perspectives meet.”
“We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.”

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