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I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.
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Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.
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When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.
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An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.
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As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human-and thus manageable-scale.
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In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
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The girl who I will marry will have a heart so wise that in the hollow of her eyes my heart will want to tarry. The girl who will be mine will have skin so soft and tender, and when it comes December, her skin will be my wine.
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Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.
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In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.
