#unfold

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. ↗

— Titus Livius

#actions #before #desirable #exemplary #eyes

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#becomes #christian #christian life #continuation #day

Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#belief #doubt #faith #history #inquiry

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#creative #creative force #expand #force #friends

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#arbitrary #arrest #avoid #complete #educational

The Iraq War marked the beginning of the end of network news coverage. Viewers saw the juxtaposition of the embedded correspondents reporting the war as it was actually unfolding and the jaundiced, biased, negative coverage of these same events in the network newsrooms. ↗

— Dick Morris

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But life inevitably throws us curve balls, unexpected circumstances that remind us to expect the unexpected. I've come to understand these curve balls are the beautiful unfolding of both karma and current. ↗

— Carre Otis

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A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time. ↗

— Richard Powers

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