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Books, Mistakes And Wonder
“Do it. Nine out of ten times I will say to you ‘Do it.’ Particularly when you are young and need to learn what you can do and what you should not do, do it. Say yes. Do it, learn from it, move on. Even if you are treated terribly, even if you loathe the experience,…
— Zoe Caldwell/Interview with James Grissom
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My father taught me to be a writer, though my mother was the writer. He tore my pen pal letters up and asked me to write what I saw out the window instead. The crab apple tree where our beloved family cat was buried. The green clothesline and my mother with pins in her mouth and a basket….
Music and words lived in him.
…I saw the world through books. (He) made sure I had books.
— Laura Lentz
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“When the SELF experiences the fine flavors of the flow of Intelligence within itself, the universal reality of the individual personality is revealed. All aspects of the apparent individual personality are perceived, as they really are, in their cosmic unbounded status….
The more clearly Consciousness experiences the finer flows of its own pure Light, the more the body and its perceptions are bathed in that flow of light.”
