Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything in connection with something else

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.

There are two graces in breathing:
drawing in air and discharging it.
The former constrains, the latter refreshes:
so marvelously is life mixed.

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The more I listen
the more profound
the silence becomes.

~ Nan Merrill

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