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To: JockoManning
There are times when the entire arrangement of our existence is disrupted and we long then for just one ordinary day--seeing our ordinary life as greatly desirable, even wonderful, in the light of the terrible disruption that has taken place. Difficulty opens our eyes to pleasures we had taken for granted.

This is a terrible glorious truth, worthy of being wrestled with. Many thanks, Jocko, for the sharing.

142 posted on 09/28/2006 3:11:33 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: .30Carbine; All

Yes, I have known times when that was true! And here's today's quote from quotemeal:

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QUOTEMEAL from HEARTLIGHT -- http://www.heartlight.org/



By means of art we are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason. Like that little mirror in the fairy tales - look into it, and you will see not yourself but, for a moment, that which passeth understanding, a realm to which no man can ride or fly. And for which the soul begins to ache ...

-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn


146 posted on 09/28/2006 7:17:16 PM PDT by JockoManning (www.cyberhymnal.org)
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