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"She rearranged some of the crystals on the table so they pointed directly at the cards. "It's important not to live a small life. To allow your dreams to expand beyond the edges of what you think is possible. Living is an act of imagination."
Just then, with her words, I could sense a small shift. I felt like I was a Crystal Palace, a conservatory with full-length windows and a glass arcade roof." — Sep 12, 2026 01:55PM
"She rearranged some of the crystals on the table so they pointed directly at the cards. "It's important not to live a small life. To allow your dreams to expand beyond the edges of what you think is possible. Living is an act of imagination."
Just then, with her words, I could sense a small shift. I felt like I was a Crystal Palace, a conservatory with full-length windows and a glass arcade roof." — Sep 12, 2026 01:55PM
“You are living through an unusual time,” Henri Nouwen writes. You see that you are called to go toward solitude, prayer, hiddenness, and great simplicity. You see that, for the time being, you have to be limited in your movements, sparing
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“Memory’s the muscle sting of now.”
― Brother
― Brother
“Labor is a blessing, toil is the misery of man.”
― The Sabbath
― The Sabbath
“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
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“The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming “the people” has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible—this is the new idea at the heart of these new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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