QUOTES FOR
"LEARNING THE LANGUAGE OF GOD AND THE EARTH"
Preach My Gospel chapter 7
Nancy Baird
"The poem on the page is only a shadow of the poem in the mind. And the poem in the mind is only a shadow of the poetry and the mystery of the things of this world."
Stanley Kunitz, poet
"Man lives in the midst of forces he does not perceive because he suffers from what has been called 'paradigm blindness'; that is, he does not perceive things that exist outside his currently accepted set of beliefs and experience."
"The mind is the frontier and the tool" to spiritual awareness.
Catherine Thomas, Light in the Wilderness, ix.
"The writer...is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, because that is what he will know."
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, 68.
"Mormon belief is nothing new; it is the oldest understanding of the cosmos."
George Handley, Humanities, BYU, Spring 2011, 13.
"Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God."
Teilhard de Chardin, French philosopher, Jesuit priest
"One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all... right away every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better...the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you."
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life, 78.
"We usually tend to think of consecration in terms of property...But there are so many ways of keeping back part and so many things we can withhold a portion besides property."
Neal Maxwell, BYU Studies, 32, no 3, 7.
"Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs -
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings."
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "God's Grandeur" (last three lines.)
"Too late did I love Thee! For behold, Thou wert within, and I without, and there did I seek thee; I unlovely, rushed heedlessly among the things of beauty thou madest. Thou were with me, but I was not with Thee."
St. Augustine
Learning the Language of God and The Earth - PMG 7 -Nancy Baird - March 27, 2012(Audio)
