Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou
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Semi-Saracenic architecture, sustaining itself as if by miracle in mid air; glittering in the red sunlight with a hundred oriels, minarets, an...
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.'
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It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.
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It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.
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One could sit still and look at life from the air; that was it. And I was conscious again of the fundamental magic of flying, a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - speed, accessibility, and convenience - and will not change as they change. Looking down from the air that morning, I felt that stillness rested like a light over the earth. What motion there was took on a slow grace, like slow-motion pictures which catch the moment of outstretched beauty that one cannot see in life itself, so swiftly does it move. And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down to the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
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Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle. We come awake to such a realization when we recognize our connection to a spiritual dimension.
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But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind."
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I am astonished at the singular pertinacity and endurance of our lives. The miracle is, that what is is, when it is so difficult, if not impos...
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Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has body and self taken over by a chthonian force beyond her control. In the welcome pregnancy, this is a happy sacrifice. But in the unwanted one, initiated by rape or misadventure, it is a horror. Such unfortunate women look directly into nature's heart of Darkness. For a fetus is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.
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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
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The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
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Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.
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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
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When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.
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If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change
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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
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It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
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One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
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There's so much absolute hope now. She's full of miracles and she's a fighter.
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
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A coincidence is a small miracle where God chose to remain anonymous.
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African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
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