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The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if not a sense of the mutuality of influence, rising out of an essential unity, among soul and body and community and world? These are all the works of God, and it is therefore the work of virtue to make or restore harmony among them. The world is certainly thought of as a place of spiritual trial, but it is also the confluence of soul and body, word and flesh, where thoughts must become deeds, where goodness must be enacted. This is the great meeting place, the narrow passage where spirit and flesh, word and world, pass into each other. The Bible's aim, as I read it, is not the freeing of the spirit from the world. It is the handbook of their interaction. It says that they cannot be divided; that their mutuality, their unity, is inescapable; that they are not reconciled in division, but in harmony. What else can be meant by the resurrection of the body? The body should be "filled with light," perfected in understanding. And so everywhere there is the sense of consequence, fear and desire, grief and joy. What is desirable is repeatedly defined in the tensions of the sense of consequence. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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إلى البكائين على مافات٫ المتحيّرين وراء تحقيق المعجزات٫ الدائرين حول محور من أنفسهم يصارعون المنى وتصارعهم دون الانتهاء إلى قرار.. ألى هؤلاء نوجّه كلمة ( وليم جيمس ) : "ان بيننا وبين الله رابطة لاتنفصم٫ فإذا نحن أخضعنا أنفسنا لإشرافه-سبحانه وتعالى- تحققت أمنياتنا وآمالنا كلها ↗

— محمد الغزالي

#islam #miracles #optimistic #wisdom #miracles

If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #optimistic #philosophy #wisdom #dreams

L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

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The wise man is one who, knows, what he does not know. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

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Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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