"But even Plato knew that class and conditioning and so forth have an inalterable effect on the individual. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate."
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Cave on Constraints and Creativity
I have come to understand that the muscle of the imagination is strengthened through resistance, discipline, and order. These institutional bonds ultimately become a form of liberation where our dreams, alert and concentrated, can find their focus and run truly free.
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Neuhaus on Wisdom and Wonder
We are cast upon God when we wonder. In wonder is wisdom born. The most elementary and at the same time the most profound of questions is, "Why is there anything at all and not nothing?" "Why am I?" We must never be embarrassed about asking something so basic, so apparently naive. In our supposed sophistication, we may suppress the question, we may become practiced at forgetting it, but we never really get beyond it. The fact that I find myself in a boundless world of innumerable existent beings is astonishing beyond measure.
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Martin Shaw on Losing our Bespokeness
Every decade that passes creates young people from many societies who are hypnotized by the same trail of influences. We are losing our bespokeness. We are zip code earth these days.
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Maclean on Sunrise
Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you who you think needs help even if he doesn't think so. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.