“Learning doesn’t happen behind walls.”
Qasim Davis
more infosource: “5 Years After Katrina, Teacher Tills Soil of Lower 9th Ward,” by Charles Wilson, The New York Times, January 15, 2011.
category: education, experience, farm, learning
medium: newspaper article
“Love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.”
Carson McCullers
more infosource: “The Ballad of the Sad Café,” in The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005), reprint, 25.
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category: experience, love
medium: fiction
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“Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act we have no way of knowing what we are. And the experience of our existence is impossible without some experience of knowing or some experience of experience.”
Thomas Merton
more infosource: Thoughts in Solitude (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), 121.
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category: action, being, existence, experience, identity
medium: nonfiction
“Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren’t on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.”
Marisha Pessl
more infosource: Special Topics in Calamity Physics (New York: Viking Penguin, 2006), 102.
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category: dog, experience, happiness, sun
medium: fiction
notes: Pessl and others attribute this quote to Samuel Taylor Coleridge though I have yet to find the source.
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