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David Hayward 6 months ago.
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Anonymous“Most of all she’d learned that there is a backbone in life, a spiritual spine that undercut everything, and that finding it in yourself, learning to feel its pulse, was salvation in its purest sense.” – Dream Wheels (novel by Richard Wagamese)
“I knew better, of course. I knew that trying to capture time—to hold on to anything at all—was not only useless, but a terrible waste. Time was all we had. I had carried with me Abraham Joshua Heschel’s idea of time as a cathedral. It didn’t have to be Sabbath for this moment to be holy. It was holy precisely because there was no other…
I felt it all, all at once—the way that time can slow to a near standstill simply by existing inside it. By not pushing through it, or past it—by not wishing it away, not trying to capture it. It was a lesson I needed to learn over and over again: to stop and simply be. To recognize these moments and enter them—with reverence and an unprotected heart—as if walking into a cathedral.” – Dani Shapiro (Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday guest tomorrow – Oct. 27th – it can be viewed for two weeks after.)
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This topic was modified 2 months, 4 weeks ago by David Hayward.
Love the quotes @Jo White.
I’m a huge fan of Heschel!
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