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Driving At Night and No One is Listening
Writing is like driving at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
— E.L. Doctorow
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Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since nobody was listening, everything must be said again.
— Andre Gide
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One test for the validity of any religious teaching is whether it sets us free or binds us to itself.
When religion consists of rules to be mindlessly followed, it is but a stained glass prison.
When religion forbids honest doubt, it is but a sanctified lobotomy.
We cannot know if any teacher is wise unless we, ourselves, have the same wisdom within ourselves.
True teachers do not seek to quench our honest curiosity, but inflame our hearts and minds to even fiercer blazing.
Teachers who love us will not seek to bind us to their own words but will open our hearts to the wisdom within us and all around us.
— Jim Rigby
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We make our whole life journey like writing a story; we can only see a tiny distance ahead but we keep going until we live the whole thing, which usually ends up…
