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last updated: November 28, 2023

Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning

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Beauty is necessarily shrouded in mystery--which is part of its splendour.
-- Thomas Dubay

Source : Thomas Dubay (1999). “The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet”, p.42, Ignatius Press

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Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get on with the business of living.
-- Upamanyu Chatterjee

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“It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.”
“Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.”
“I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.”
“Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for churchâ€”with prayer and meditation?”
“Big dreams turn into big things.”
“God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.”
“The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters.”
“Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it,”
“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

Source : "Fictional character: Anna Barton". "Damage", www.imdb.com. 1992.
“The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.”