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“Of course the universe is full of deep magic, but I think most miracles can be traced back to someone's profound and quiet kindness.”― Joy Sullivan, Instructions for Traveling West: Poems

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Prolonged staring at one thing usually indicates that one is thinking deeply, except when it is a TV.

The faraway is as close as just looking up on a clear night.

“All that happens is symbol, and as it represents itself perfectly, it points to all the rest.” – Goethe

Art by Andrea Kowch

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” ~ Heraclitus

“(T)he philosopher is a perpetual beginner. This means that he accepts nothing as established from what men or scientists believe they know. This also means that philosophy itself is an ever-renewed experiment of its own beginning , that it consists entirely in describing this beginning, and finally, that radical reflection is conscious of its own dependence on an unreflected life that is its initial, constant, and final situation.”― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

“The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.”― R. Buckminister Fuller

“Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.”― R. Buckminster Fuller