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We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

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Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.

Bodies, Body, Mind, Precious, Rejection, Resistance
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How our story has been divided up among the truth-telling professions! Religion, philosophy, history, poetry, compete with each other for our ears; and science competes with all together. And for each we have a different set of ears. But, though we hear much, what we are told is as nothing: none of it gives us ourselves, rather each story-kind steals us to make its reality of us.

Philosophy, Reality, Giving, Told, Together, Make

Until the missing story of ourselves is told, nothing besides told can suffice us: we shall go on quietly craving it.

Missing, Stories, Goes On, Quietly, Suffice, Story

Myth is a tale once believed as truth; believed, it is not myth, but religion. A tale once religiously believed that has come to be called a myth is something of religion corrupted with disbelief. What are beliefs for some societies but myths for others cannot fill spiritual vacancies in the life of those others.

Beliefs, Religion, Religiously, Societies, Spiritual, Vacancy

Nature is what you don't have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

Looks, Trouble, Nature

Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.

Long, Giving, Causes, Poetry, Eloquent, Necessity
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