Beauty

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Beauty is a sense of universal relations, of being brought into the intensities of even painful feeling.

Robert Duncan

for the Other

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I am responsible for the Other without waiting for reciprocity, were I to die for it. Reciprocity is his affair. It is precisely insofar as the relation between the Other and me is not reciprocal that I am subjection to the Other; and I am "subject" essentially in this sense. It is I who support all... The I always has one responsibility more than all the others.

Emmanuel Levinas

Imortal longings

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I have immortal longings in me.

Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

Questions

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How we ask questions, what questions we ask, and how we respond to them determine the insights we have and rate at which we will grow.

Christina Baldwin, One to One

Welcoming strangers

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The other must always must have precedence over myself, not because she or he is necessarily congenial or shares my opinions, but simply because she or he is there and needs me.

Emmanuel Levinas
quoted and paraphrased by Dow Marmur, rabbi emeritus, Holy Blossom Temple, Our duty to welcome strangers, Toronto Star, September 6, 2010, A13

Life is energy

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Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take time and the care to unlock it.

Marianne Moore