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In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven thro...more

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Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out ...more

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...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

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Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence,...more

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It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

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Most people desperately desire to believe that they are a part of a great mystery, that Creation is a work of grace and glory, not merely the result o...more