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“'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.”

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Samantha Power

Samantha Power, born on September 21, 1970, is an accomplished American foreign policy expert and author. She has a deep background in international relations and human rights issues and has served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Multilateral Affairs in the United States. Power is known for her research and contributions to conflict prevention and resolution, and has held positions in various international organizations and academic institutions. more

“Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.”

“"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.”

Thinking Self Feelings Lost Wish Interest Acting Divine Eternal Kingdoms Craving Self Interest Egocentric Kingdom Come

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything.”

Wonder Concepts Idols

Author:Gregory of Nyssa

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