"We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us."

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Source : Stephen Charnock (1815). “The Works of the Late Rev. Stephen Charnock ... With a Prefatory Dedication and Memoir”, p.678

Stephen Charnock

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“Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.”
“Juliet, when we made love, you used to cry. You said, "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you 'til I die". There's a place for us, you know the movie song. When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?”
“Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.”
“The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.”

Source : Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.16, Shambhala Publications
“With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.”
“I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.”
“I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.”
“What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.”

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