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Creative work is pure prayer of spirit. Art is the heart of the people. Knowledge is the brain of the people. Only through the heart and wisdom can mankind unite and understand each other. ~ Nicholas Roerich
[Image ~ Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy]
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In re-reading The Story of My Life, I was moved by Helen Keller’s profound expression of gratitude for her teacher Anne Sullivan:
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Poetry arises out of the unknown and speaks to what we do know. ~ W.S. Merwin
Contemporary American poet W.S. Merwin thus affirms what philosopher-poet Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi penned eight centuries ago in his poem “Two Kinds of Intelligence”:
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It’s curious to contemplate how, in the course of interactions with friends, family, acquaintances, and strangers, a statement they make will strike us with deep meaning and be remembered for the rest of our lives. I call it a Sparkle. It doesn’t have to be emphatically delivered; more often than not, it’s voiced en passant. Our sudden focus could be because of a stark incongruity between the speaker and his/her words or because at that particular moment, some part of us was alert to hearing it.
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