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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9622f42 | We could just as reasonably base our number system on eight (if we were cartoon characters) or four (if we were lobsters) or even two (if we were dolphins). | Charles Petzold | ||
| 6e94a47 | To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API. | Charles Petzold | ||
| d0df804 | He had given work to a nightwalker named Dorothy Evans and gradually became beguiled by her. She was a plump, pretty, cattleman's daughter, pale as a cameo, with the sort of overripe body that always seems four months pregnant. Her long brown hair was braided into figure eights and pinned up over her ears in the English country-girl style. Grim experience was in her eyes, many years of pouting shaped her lips, but everything else about her .. | Ron Hansen | ||
| 77c5a47 | I have found what I believe to be the highest kind of Christianity. I want to give my life, God helping me, to lead others, many others, to find it. Many have found it already, thank God, and they are doing what I am doing, in a large or little way, as God gives them light. And that is all there is to the revival, and all there is to me, my friend. | Evan Roberts | ||
| 4fdc5ba | for Roberts talks chiefly of God's love and of the great joy of living in obedience to that love. | Evan Roberts | ||
| b735764 | Andrew Murray once said that what the church and individuals have to dread is the inordinate activity of the soul with its power of mind and will. F. B. Meyer declared that had he not known about the dividing of spirit and soul, he could not have imagined what his spiritual life would have been. Many others, such as Otto Stockmayer, Jessie Penn-Lewis, Evan Roberts, Madame Guyon, have given the same testimony. | Watchman Nee | ||
| cc9c7b4 | Evan Roberts speaks: "Let us see what God's Spirit will do for us in a quiet meeting. It did wonderful things at Lougher when no one sung or spoke." A few moments later all are kneeling in five minutes of silent prayer. The crowded room is still except for quick gasps of sobbing breath from those who are deeply moved. Here and there a half audible voice is mumbling inarticulate prayer. Deeper yet grows time silence and more impressive. Wrin.. | Evan Roberts | ||
| 3f46580 | Personally, I think I have never met a man who appealed to me as being so completely consecrated to his cause as this young man of twenty-six years, trained in the colliery and at the "smithy." When one thinks of it, no young man of his years and native environment could have endured against so strong a tide of personal success unless he had an enduring grip upon mighty moorings." | Evan Roberts | ||
| 5364e4d | The vision is passing out into virtue, and men are paying their debts, and abandoning the public-house, and treating their horses well. Oh, my masters! Did you say the next Revival would be ethical? It is that, because it is spiritual, and you will never get an ethical revival except in this way. | Evan Roberts | ||
| a56032b | Begin to try and teach along that line; instead of treating our congregations as congregations to be instructed ever in holy things, treat them as men and women that are to be persuaded to holy things, and consecration, and Jesus Christ. | Evan Roberts | ||
| 3446671 | I have tried to talk out of the tremendous sense that God is abroad, and I talk out of the desire that I cannot express--that somewhere, some when, somehow, He may put out his hand, and shake this city for the salvation of men. | Evan Roberts | ||
| 3ed0167 | Why should I teach when the Spirit is teaching? What need have these people to be told that they are sinners? What they need is salvation. Do they not know it? It is not knowledge that they lack, but decision--action. And why should I control the meetings? The meetings control themselves, or rather the Spirit that is in them controls them. | Evan Roberts | ||
| a243366 | But one night, after I had been in great distress praying about this, I went to sleep, and at one o'clock in the morning suddenly I was waked up out of my sleep, and I found myself with unspeakable joy and awe in the very presence of the Almighty God. And for the space of four hours I was privileged to speak face to face with Him as a man speaks face to face with a friend. At five o'clock it seemed to me as if I again returned to earth. | Evan Roberts | ||
| ec205e8 | Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. -- Robert Browning | Patricia Evans | ||
| ce13376 | can't take myself too seriously when I open | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| fcaef16 | Public schools go on year after year. They don't die because they are not alive. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 107f3cd | Basically, if you want to become a good writer, you need to do three things: read a lot, listen well and deeply, and write a lot. And don't think too much. Just enter the heat of words and sounds and coloured sensation and keep your pen moving across the page. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 0ba9cf3 | Go ahead; take Kant's PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSIC and get it to show what he is telling. We would all be a lot happier. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 68cc804 | THE BASIC UNIT of writing practice is the timed exercise. | practice unit writing | Natalie Goldberg | |
| d386575 | Sit down right now. Give me this moment. Write whatever's running through you. You might start with "this moment" and end up writing about the gardenia you wore at your wedding seven years ago. That's fine. Don't try to control it. Stay present with whatever comes up, and keep your hand moving." | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 5e58cfb | Tell about the quality of light coming in through your window. Jump in and write. Don't worry if it is night and your curtains are closed or you would rather write about the light up north--just write. Go for ten minutes, fifteen, a half hour. | quality | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 62e47c6 | Begin with "I remember." Write lots of small memories. If you fall into one large memory, write that. Just keep going. Don't be concerned if the memory happened five seconds ago or five years ago." | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 551901f | Write in different places--for example, in a laundromat, and pick up on the rhythm of the washing machines. Write at bus stops, in cafes. Write what is going on around you. | cafe laundromat place rhythm | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 4d4e5b7 | Visualize a place that you really love, be there, see the details. Now write about it. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 52fdab0 | Write about "leaving." Approach it any way you want. Write about your divorce, leaving the house this morning, or a friend dying." | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| f5ac724 | Explore the rugged edge of thought . Like grating a carrot, give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| c37f8c9 | That dead feeling hits hard and permeates the first year. It comes back to test you often in the following years, but if you get through the first year, then you know about it. It will never have the power to defeat you again. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 333865d | the artist and the alcoholic have parallel paths. They both go into the darkness, but the alcoholic gets stuck there. The artist (if she is not also addicted) goes into the darkness and is transformed by the experience and comes out more alive. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 1b13aca | do all my original writing by hand. I have greater mobility: I can write on planes, with friends in cafes. Plus it feels more connected with my body; my hand moves with my arm and shoulder, which is connected to my chest and heart. All good writing comes from the body and is a physical experience. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 9fae7bd | It was my own human mind. I needed to understand it. Why? It's the writer's landscape. Imagine that a painter has that wild animal to capture on canvas: arresting its fangs, the raging color of its eyes, the blue of it's hump, the flash of its hoofs, the rugged shadow that it casts. We writers have that beast inside us: how we feel, think, hope, dream, perceive. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| b71ad32 | I refilled the wineglass and took it with me for a nice long bubble bath, where I settled in with Ambrose's guide for low-voltage outdoor lighting. It wasn't thrilling bubble-bath reading material, but I was impressed by his imagination. You wouldn't know from the writing that he'd never actually seen a low-voltage lighting system in someone's yard, much less installed one himself. His descriptions were clear, colorful, and written with aut.. | fake fraudulence inscription instruction-manual instructions manual reading signed user-guide | Lee Goldberg | |
| cbfa57b | That yes you commit to as reader and writer is the current that hums through all the work. Of course, you might say yes and then come up against an iceberg. No, you suddenly say definitively. And there you are. What do you do next? I can't answer that for you, but I do know you eventually have to do something--or freeze to death. See if you can chip away at even a little of the mass in front of you--or try standing up on it. Does it support.. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| e37bfd3 | WRITE EVERYTHING YOU know about dying. Just go. Don't think, "What does she mean by that?" Dive in. We die in all kinds of ways. Who died? When did they die? how? why?" | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| c464db9 | Yet it is good to know about our terrible selves, not laud or criticize them, just acknowledge them. Then, out of this knowledge, we are better equipped to make a choice for beauty, kind consideration, and clear truth. We make this choice with our feet firmly on the ground. We are not running wildly after beauty with fear at our backs. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| f40e7ce | One of my writing students sent me an article about Kincaid in The New York Times: "I'm not writing for anyone at all," Ms. Kincaid said. "I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself--so I don't end up saying peculiar things like 'I'm black and I'm proud.' I write so I don't end up as a set of slogans and cliches." That is exactly what writing is supposed to do--take us into the real texture of li.. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 84f87c9 | SIT DOWN WITH THE plan to write something you have always wanted to write but have never managed to get around to. This time, though, you are not timing yourself. You are sitting down with the determination to write it through, even if it takes all afternoon or night. Relax and ease into it. Promise yourself you'll burn through, put the real stuff down, and not get in your own way. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 4c84f90 | Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that compound the suffering and assure their continuation. | mistakes suffering teachers | Natalie Goldberg | |
| 8c0af58 | TAKE A SUBJECT, a situation, a story that is hard for you to talk about, and write about it. Write slowly, evenly, in a measured way. Don't skip over any part of it. Stay in there. It might take you several days, a week, a month to write out the whole thing. Continue to work on it every day until it is finished. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 894ec09 | It is good to pay attention to our dreams. For a period of a few weeks, write them down each morning. You don't have to do anything else. Just write them down. They have their own magic and will bleed into your waking life. While | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 7efcf26 | Why else are first thoughts so energizing? Because they have to do with freshness and inspiration. Inspiration means "breathing in." Breathing in God. You actually become larger than yourself, and first thoughts are present. They are not a cover-up of what is actually happening or being felt. The present is imbued with tremendous energy. It is what is." | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| ce849c9 | the back of every word we write is no word. Only because no word exists is there space enough to write some word. So when we write about our feelings and perceptions, it is writing practice when we also touch the place where there are no feelings, no perceptions, there is no you, no person doing any writing. In other words you disappear, you become one with your words, not separate, and when you put your pen down, the you who was writing is.. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 6bba88c | It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again and collect a weekly allowance, but you must claim where you come from and look deep into it. Come to honor and embrace it, or at the least, accept it. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| ba3bee1 | Miyamoto Musashi's actual burial ground was in close range. According to legend he had been buried in full samurai regalia clutching his faithful sword. The last line of the translation: He died lonely. The Japanese liked loneliness. It had a different quality than our dreaded isolation. More like one with the void, alone with the Alone, no longer separate from anything. It was the final compliment to describe him this way. | Natalie Goldberg | ||
| 8a26336 | If every time you sat down, you expected something great, writing would always be a great disappointment. Plus that expectation would also keep you from writing. | Natalie Goldberg |