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• I'm an indoors person. I'm not afraid of the outdoors and I penetrate it easily and cheerfully. However, I must admit I like Central Park better than the wilderness, and I like the canyons of Manhattan better than Central Park, and I like the interior of my apartment better than the canyons of Manhattan, and I like my two rooms better with the shades down at all times than with the shades up. I'm not an agoraphobe at all, but I am a claustrophile, if you see the distinction.

  Isaac Asimov

  Central Park, Two, Parks

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• In no other action can our Savior be considered more tender or more loving than in this, in which He, as it were, annihilates Himself and reduces Himself to food, that He may penetrate our souls and unite Himself to the hearts of His faithful.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Soul, Faithful

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• Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

  Charles Colson

  Writing, Imagination, Fiction

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• There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try to penetrate to the essence of things and phenomena and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  "All and Everything: Views from the Real World". Book by G. I. Gurdjieff, 1973.

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• What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.

  Aleatha Romig

  Light, Darkness, Mystery

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• We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.

  Julio Cortazar

  Serendipity, Lightning, Attention

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• Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address delivered during The General Audience on Ash Wednesday In St. Peter’s Square, zenit.org. March 1, 2006.

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• Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her. Variant: NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Secret, Midst

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• Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Nature, Soul, Details

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• It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Truth Is, Grasping

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.29, Princeton University Press

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• Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but to bow down to secret things in humble veneration, and to abandon God's mysteries to God, for Truth deceives no man-Almighty God can do all things. Amen.

  Paul of the Cross

  Humble, Men, Secret

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• We are used to facing the United States as a fortress from the outside. Now we are finding a breach to penetrate the country (the U.S.) and confront it from within.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Country, Islam, United States

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• To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by expressing in the world of forms- truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.

  Meher Baba

  Inspirational, Essence, Games

  Meher Baba (2005). “Infinite Intelligence”

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• Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the light, it nestles in and penetrates all physical forms.

  Philipp Otto Runge

  Light, Color, Friendly

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• Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.

  James Dwight Dana

  Science, Vision, Limits

  James Dwight Dana (1875). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.2

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• The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.

  Peter Wilson

  Angel, Transparent

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• When someone is dancing madly in a blissful state, in ecstasy after meditation, he is creating vibrations around him. They may penetrate into anyone. They can become infectious; they do become infectious. This ecstasy can go to others also; this ecstasy can be felt. Others hearts will be touched by it. And if you can create ripples around you, vibrations, you have served the world, and there is no other way to serve it - you have served the divine, and there is no other way to serve it.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Creating, Dancing

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• The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. For men of the first class, nature is a picture; for men of the second class, it is an opportunity; for men of the third class, it is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Life, Success, Nature

  "The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings".

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• All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.

  Teresa of Avila

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

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• The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

  Pope John Paul II (2006). “Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body”

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• The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Order

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.36, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas and the same experiences.

  Thomas Merton

  Thinking, Discovery, Years

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Science, Wish

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 332, 1980.

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• Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Morning, Land, Gates

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”, Lulu.com

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• So this is what I will do. I will gather together my past and look. I will see a thing that has already happened. the pain that cut my spirit loose. I will hold that pain in my hand until it becomes hard and shiny, more clear. And then my fierceness can come back, my golden side, my black side. I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me, because this is the nature of two tigers. But I will win and giver her my spirit, because this is the way a mother loves her daughter.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Daughter, Pain

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.252, Penguin

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