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“Your separation from God is the hardest work you will ever do.”

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Hafez, whose real name was Muhammad ibn Shams al-Din al-Mo'alla, is one of the greatest poets in the history of Persian literature. Born in 1326 and died in 1389, Hafez is renowned for his lyrical poetry, which is filled with profound reflections on love, life, religion, and philosophy. more

“The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the existence of a sea, with the necessary denuding agencies,-waves and currents,-and, in consequence, of deposition also; but in which the internal heat acted so near the surface, that whatever was deposited came, matter of course, to be metamorphosed into semi-plutonic forms, that retained only the stratification.”

Source: Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh

“But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all is fiery and yet dark,-a solitary hell, without suffering or sin,-we would do well to commit ourselves to the guidance of a living poet of the true faculty,-Thomas Aird and see with his eyes.”

Source: Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio

“It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality.”

Firsts May Has Beens Real Moments Feelings Reality Seems Action Consciousness Eternity Pursuit Paradise Transformed Timeless Condemnation Paradoxical Metamorphosis

Author:Octavio Paz

“We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.”

“With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmonies, actions which in their sequence one upon another constitute in their continuity what may be termed the 'behaviour'.”

May Action Simple Harmony Various Reactions Nervous Behaviour Sequence Continuity Nervous System Reflexes

Author:Charles Scott Sherrington

“I was so nervous before going out there”

Nervous Going Out

Author:Natasha Kaplinsky

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