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Sunrise over the Wheat Field

Reading daily and reading slowly.

Patiently absorbing the text.

It builds a layer of humus inside of you.

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One day wondrous things will sprout

     from that layer of humus...

     -- Willem Vermandere (cabaret singer)

I live off the rich harvest
from the humus of
sustained reading. 
-- Bieke Vandekerckhove

The great writings

that take up the central issues of life

interact with one another.

They cannot be read in isolation. 

-- Richard J. Foster

Mosaic Stones
Scrabble Letters

In the search for understanding,

what’s worse than using

a tangle of words?

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You’re just swinging a stick

as if you could hit the moon,

scratching a boot

as if you could itch a foot!

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-- No-Gate Gateway:

the original Wu-Men Kuan,

translated by David Hinton

Just as it would be difficult to read the text

if there were no spaces between the words,​

so living without taking time for silence

makes our lives jumbled and garbled ...

-- Mary C. Earle

Happiness is when...

what you THINK,

what you SAY,

and what you DO,

are in harmony.

-- Ghandi

My life has been the poem

I would have writ
But I could not both live

and utter it. 

      -- Henry David Thoreau

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