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1816 Laennec's Stethoscope
"Probably a great deal of harm to ourselves and others is done by what we call our self-denials. 'I won't have you saving yer dirty sowl upon me.' said an Irish woman to her district visitor; and it is just possible that she expressed a law of life,--that we are not allowed to be good to others, or even to be good in ourselves, just for the sake of being good. Love and the service of love, are the only things that count." Charlotte Mason Archbishop Desmond Tutu taught us as we questioned whether it was any of our business whether there was apartheid in Africa or not, 'when an elephant steps on the tail of a mouse and you say, 'I do not intend to take sides in this situation,' you have already taken the side of the elephant.' patience does not lie in ignoring the obvious; it lies in calling attention to it whether we can change it or not." Joan Chittister It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name." Ursula Le Guin "And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, 'Be still' and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things." Maurice Sendak 1928-2012 19th Century CE, 1895 Korea's Last Empress, Myoungsung, or Queen Min, was slain by occupying Japanese soldiers. "In other regions it was only to be expected that we should find poetry. Thus it is nothing strange that architecture, which has been called frozen music, and which is poetry embodied in material forms, should have a language of its own, not dry or hard, not of the mere intellect alone, but one in the forming of which it is evident that the imaginative faculties were at work." Richard Trench "It is always shocking to meet life where we thought we were alone. 'Look out! we cry, 'It's alive.' And therefore this is the very point at which so many draw back...and proceed no further with Christianity. An 'impersonal God'--well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads,--better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap--best of all. But God Himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, husband--that is quite another matter. There comes moment when the children who have been playing at burglars hush suddenly: was that real footstep in the hall? There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('Man's Search for God!') suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?" C.S. Lewis "You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads." --Ray Bradbury  Coming home the other night, late, who should cross St.David's Lane but Mr. Fox? | "Perhaps this is one of the secrets of life--to know 'glory' when we see it." --Charlotte Mason
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