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His curiosity was of a special intensity, and he bustled me in conversation so that I was apt to say more than I wanted to."

'[...] I put aside my academic pomps long ago, when I fell in the world and discovered that my only salvation lay in humility'

"what do you mean by character?"

'Guts. A good strong will to balance all the book-learning. An understanding ..'
Feb 22, 2016 02:02AM
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I knew where I was weak --article nine, which is silence, and article fifteen, concerning obedience. I couldn't hold my tongue and I disliked being disciplined by another...

Note: Everybody is clever enough for what God wants of him, and strong enough for what he is set to do, if not for what he would like to be'
Apr 26, 2016 12:53AM
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L is on page 63 of 1136
'[...] I knew that really he was the cleverer one, though he had a great trouble putting words together.

he stood by me through a very rough time, and I am grateful.'

'The road to escape lay in self-knowledge; recognition of the spark!'
Apr 18, 2016 06:22AM
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L is on page 53 of 1136
"they said a wise man could catch the wind in a net...

It was a metaphor for understanding what could be felt but not seen, [but of course] not many people understood."

"A man of great brilliance," said Hollier, "and an old friend of mine. Our work is more closely connected..."

"I suppose we are both trying to catch the wind in a net."

Of whom does this refer to? A single Self or other?
Mar 24, 2016 01:11AM
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L is on page 40 of 1136
Christ once made a pun..

'Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church'

[Petras --a stone in Greek.
'Thou art rocky and upon this rock I shall build my church!']

People wouldn't get the point.. Wouldn't have church-goers rolling in the aisles two thousand years later, would it?!

His place of worship is steadfast and as timelessly rooted as the ground upon which one treads!
Mar 04, 2016 07:02AM
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'[...]by ordinary standards, a mess, but they had a coherence, and even a comfort, of their own. Once you stopped being offended by the muddle [...] they were oddly beautiful, like Hollier himself'
Feb 12, 2016 03:06AM
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proverb 'what's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh'

woven around spirits & scholars --a woven world of mysticism, historical allusion & gothic fantasy.
Celebrating humanism in themes of religion, love, art & music.

'the lyre of Orpheus opens the door of the underworld..'
Feb 11, 2016 11:04AM
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