Sources of Wisdom
Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.
– Rumi,13th century Sunni Muslim & Sufi poet
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Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Transcendentalist & Unitarian minister, Divinity School Address, 1838
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Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but … read more.
Sources of Wisdom
Home is Where…
وطن المرء ليس مكان ولادته و لكنه المكان الذي تنتهي فيه كل محاولاته للهروب
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
– Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer & 1988 Nobel Prize winner … read more.
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Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
– Ray Bradbury, American author & Unitarian
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Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.
– William Ellery Channing,
19th century Unitarian preacher