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Quote by Jane Hirshfield

“Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.”

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Jane Hirshfield is an American poet known for her concise and profound poetry. Born on February 24, 1953, she has gained widespread recognition in the literary world since the 1980s. more

“Adoration is not some fervent spiritual or poetic exercise reserved for a chosen few. I believe the human race will die out and destroy nature if it does not learn again how to adore God, the God in all of us, God shining and living in nature, and learn again how to act from and in that spirit of adoration.”

Ifs Believe Humans Doe Spiritual Spirit Dies I Believe Race Exercise Shining Chosen Human Race Poetic Adore Adoration Reserved Fervent

Book:Dialogues with a Modern Mystic

Source: Dialogues with a Modern Mystic

“I have a beautiful address book a friend gave me in 1966. I literally cannot open it again. Ever. It sits on the shelf with over a hundred names crossed out. What is there to say? There are no words. I'll never understand why it happened to us.”

Book Beautiful Names Happened Hundred Aids Addresses Shelves Address Books

Author:Jerry Herman

“In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw.”

Years Body Spirit Born Sin Secret Company Teacher Beats Educated Quarters Colleagues Frail Inhuman Bad Company

Author:Moses Hess

“The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.”

Knows Life Is Social Existence Consciousness Economy Focus Produce Materials Creatures Conscious Historical Productions Criteria Social Life Living Creatures Evaluation

Author:Moses Hess

“We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe.”

People Europe Universal

Author:Moses Hess

“Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.”

People Heart Felt Community Known Connections Opening Pulling Tugging Opening Our Hearts

Author:Parker J. Palmer

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