January 2011
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Canticle of the Sun
Most high, all powerful, all good Lord! All praise is yours, all glory, all honor, and all blessing.
To you, alone, Most High, do they belong. No mortal lips are worthy to pronounce your name.
Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings the day; and you give light through him. And he is beautiful and radiant in all his splendor! Of...
brandtrusso:
Alexander the Great’s conversation with a pirate he had captured: The king asked what possessed him to infest the sea as he did, and the pirate replied: “No differently from you when you pursue your crimes in the world. I act with a small ship, so I am called a pirate. You command a fleet and are called emperor.”
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Death | George Herbert
DEATH, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing, Nothing but bones, The sad effect of sadder grones : Thy mouth was open, but thou couldst not sing. For we consider’d thee as at some six Or ten yeares hence, After the losse of life and...
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turnoffthissong asked: Hello! Randomly when I put my iPod on shuffle 'Show People Life' comes on and it's such a lovely song, it cheers me up ('Train' is my other favorite). So thank you ^_^ Happy 2011!
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“[I do not] want to leave the impression that reading many books is important. Reading great books and reading them well is what is important. Meditative reading, reading which stops and ponders, reading which sees deep into reality—that is the kind of reading which profits. That kind of reading should never end for you. Growth and stimulation and transformation will never end for you....
