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Moses' Face
In the south we have, in however attenuated a form, a vision of Moses’ face as he pulverized our idols. -Flannery O'Connor
Sam Baker
Oct 28, 20191 min read
Mary Oliver
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,...
Sam Baker
Oct 28, 20191 min read
Blue Eyes
Oil on canvas
Sam Baker
Oct 28, 20191 min read
Our Crooked Aims
We are hard on each other and call it honesty, choosing our jagged truths with care and aiming them across the neutral table. The things...
Sam Baker
Oct 28, 20191 min read
Chagall
When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is. -Pablo Picasso
Sam Baker
Oct 28, 20191 min read
It's all I have
It's all I have to bring today – This, and my heart beside – This, and my heart, and all the fields – And all the meadows wide – Be sure...
Sam Baker
Oct 28, 20191 min read
Helen
May 9, 1933 To the student body of Germany: History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that...
Sam Baker
Oct 28, 20191 min read
Everyone once
Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have...
Sam Baker
Oct 28, 20191 min read
Auden
The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like,...
Sam Baker
Oct 28, 20191 min read
Stranger in a Strange Land
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land....
Sam Baker
Oct 28, 20191 min read
Vincent Van Gogh
The best way to know God is to love many things.
Sam Baker
Oct 27, 20191 min read
Vincent van Gogh
I want your loves to be multiple.
Sam Baker
Oct 27, 20191 min read
Rumi
The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and...
Sam Baker
Oct 27, 20191 min read
George Washington Carver
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and...
Sam Baker
Oct 27, 20191 min read
Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays
Sam Baker
Oct 27, 20191 min read
Pablo Neruda
It was beautiful to live when you lived! The world is bluer and of the earth at night, when I sleep enormous, within your small hands.
Sam Baker
Oct 27, 20191 min read
Dickinson
Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise As Lightning...
Sam Baker
Oct 27, 20191 min read
The soul should always stand ajar...
-Emily Dickinson
Sam Baker
Oct 27, 20191 min read
Rilke
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked...
Sam Baker
Oct 27, 20191 min read
Merton
My successes are not my own. The way to them was prepared by others. The fruit of my labors is not my own: for I am preparing the way for...
Sam Baker
Oct 27, 20191 min read
also there is some kind of member thing going on that I don't understand. it will get fixed. I don't want a membership thing so please don't sign up. I am not sure what it does. ughh.
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