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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Loving Worship

Human beings must be known to be loved;

but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

- Blaise Pascal




I never knew how to worship

until I knew how to love.

- Henry Ward Beecher


Thursday, January 7, 2010

Imagine That

Trust that little voice in your head that says
"Wouldn't it be interesting if...";
And then do it.
Duane Michals



A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man
contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery





All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden



Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West




I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,
it's a way of looking at life through
the wrong end of a telescope.
Which is what I do, and that enables you
to laugh at life's realities.

Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)


Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil




Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte





I paint objects as I think them,
not as I see them.

Pablo Picasso




It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau


Live out of your imagination,
not your history.
Stephen Covey



I saw the angel in the marble and carved

until I set him free.
Michelangelo




If everyone is thinking alike,
then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton



You can't depend on your eyes

when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain



Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.
But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan


People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition
end by starving the best part of the mind.

William Butler Yeats




Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland

than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen Leacock






There are no rules of architecture
for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton




You can't wait for inspiration.
You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London