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"I think about myself as dust in the wind, and I’m going to be here just for a hot second, that’s about it. When you think about the vastness of the universe in which we dwell, we are dust in the wind, and yet we are here." – Carrie Mae Weems
On Perfectionism, Discomfort and Showing Up - cl@kk.org - KK.org Mail
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In other words, only by engaging in ritual could worshippers break free from the mortal sphere and picture themselves to be part of the immortal realm of holy truth. Because these ceremonies represented a link with the distant human past, as well as with an imagined timeless sacred prehistory, they were considered to be ways of transcending death itself: Sacred reversible circular time could replace profane irreversible linear time.
Time Journeys
Paul Halpern
Conviction by feeling is not always so vague as it seems. Some of the things to which man clings, calling them felt truths, are so called only because he is not able to adduce tangible proofs to their reality. But frequently, if he applies himself to a thorough examination of all the concrete and theoretical testimonies by which he has persuaded himself to believe certain things, he finds that subconsciously he has really accumulated quite solid structures of logical justification. Intelligence often later supplies proofs of what intuition has long since suspected and proposed
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
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