Evensong

#10390:
Trip the light fantastic, and you fall head over heels - neither luck nor chance, this, but the longing of the heart...

#10391:
Ask, and you gain knowledge - Think, and you open the portal to belief - Do, and you broach the realm of becoming...

#10392:
To leap off a cliff with wings has certain risks - to leap for joy, equally so, but what ecstasy in the flight...

#10393:
Touch another's mind, and independent ideas are stirred - touch another's heart, and creativity is let loose and the universe unfolds...

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"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had the influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alientation from the sources of our strength..."

~ Rachel Carson: The Sense of Wonder...

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