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13 Dec 2024 22:16

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29 Oct 2024 05:21

"No permanence is ours; we are a wave
That flows to fit whatever form it finds:
Through day or night, cathedral or the cave
We pass forever, craving form that binds."

~Hermann Hesse

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29 Oct 2024 02:19

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28 Oct 2024 23:17

Father daughter time. 🤍

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28 Oct 2024 20:15

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28 Oct 2024 17:13

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"Of all cults, that of the ancestors is the most legitimate, for the ancestors have made us what we are. A heroic past, great men, glory (by which I understand genuine glory), this is the social capital upon which one bases a national idea. To have common glories in the past and to have a common will in the present; to have performed great deeds together, to wish to perform still more—these are the essential conditions for being a people. One loves in proportion to the sacrifices to which one has consented, and in proportion to the ills that one has suffered. One loves the house that one has built and that one has handed down. The Spartan song—We are what you were; we will be what you are—is, in its simplicity, the abridged hymn of every patrie.”

~Ernest Renan

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26 Oct 2024 07:25

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26 Oct 2024 05:23

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26 Oct 2024 03:21

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26 Oct 2024 01:19

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26 Oct 2024 00:18

The Dream Of Life

Alan Watts

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25 Oct 2024 21:15

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25 Oct 2024 18:13

“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.”

~C.S. Lewis

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22 Oct 2024 04:16

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22 Oct 2024 02:14

Go outside. Have fun. 🤍

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13 Dec 2024 21:16

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29 Oct 2024 03:20

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28 Oct 2024 21:16

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28 Oct 2024 19:14

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28 Oct 2024 17:12

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"A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things, which in truth are but one, constitute this soul or spiritual principle. One lies in the past, one in the present. One is the possession in common of a rich legacy of memories; the other is present-day consent, the desire to live together, the will to perpetuate the value of the heritage that one has received in an undivided form. Man, Gentlemen, does not improvise. The nation, like the individual, is the culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice, and devotion..."

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26 Oct 2024 06:24

"The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted."

~Søren Kierkegaard

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26 Oct 2024 04:22

"People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to forego speech altogether and, just like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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26 Oct 2024 02:20

Family music time. 🤍

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26 Oct 2024 00:22

Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Though Art By John Keats

Bright star! Would I were steadfast as thou art-
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death."

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25 Oct 2024 22:16

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22 Oct 2024 06:17

"I summon to the winding ancient stair; 
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, 
Upon the broken, crumbling battlement, 
Upon the breathless starlit air, 
Upon the star that marks the hidden pole; 
Fix every wandering thought upon 
That quarter where all thought is done: 
Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?"

~William Butler Yeats

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22 Oct 2024 03:15

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22 Oct 2024 00:13

"Spiritual progress is through the growing knowledge of the self as nothing and of the Godhead as all-embracing Reality."

(Such knowledge, of course, is worthless if it is merely theoretical; to be effective, it must be realized as an immediate, intuitive experience and appropriately acted upon.)

~Aldous Huxley

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