Showing posts with label James Carroll. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Carroll. Show all posts

Monday, April 12, 2010

There are times when we stop


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We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. 
We move along the surface of things going from one quick base to another, 
often with a frenzy that wears us out.
We collect data, things, people, ideas, 'profound experiences',
 never penetrating any of them... 
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But there are other times. 
There are times when we stop. We sit still. 
We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. 
We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. 
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~  James Carroll

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