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Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.Florida ScottMaxwell
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...[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.Florida ScottMaxwell
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I admire a contented mind. I revere enjoyment of the simple things. I can imagine that contentment has a high degree of truth. But the human tendency is to take good as normal, and one's natural right, and so no cause for satisfaction and pleasure. This is accompanied by the habit of regarding bad as abnormal and a personal outrage.Florida ScottMaxwell
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I say to life, "You are very hard", and I also say: "We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easier..". Life has to be hard to have any affect on us; even now we hardly notice it. Beyond that can one go? I must. I add, "We are also blind to the miracles of good that come to us. We hardly heed them, we even protest against them". Then I am left where I was, appalled by the hardness of life, knowing we are forced to be unwilling heroes. Suddenly I wonder--is all hardness justified because we are so slow in realizing that life was meant to be heroic? Greatness is required of us. That is life's aim and justification, and we poor fools have for centuries been trying to make it convenient, manageable, pliant to our will. It is also peaceful and tender and funny and dull. Yes, all that.Florida ScottMaxwell
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This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition.Florida ScottMaxwell
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It is as though God said, "You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.Florida ScottMaxwell
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Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.Florida ScottMaxwell