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The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. the houses are all gone under the sea. the dancers are all gone under the hill.

-T. S. Eliot

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The Only Wisdom We Can Hope To

T. S. Eliot

The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. the houses are all gone under the sea. the dancers are all gone under the hill.

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And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. for an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. it is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.

Do not let me hear of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, of belonging to another, or to others, or to god. the only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. a lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. i've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because i can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. and it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.

Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. each hill revealed a shade or tint that occured in no other. the nearest was cobalt blue, another was saffron yellow, then came crimson red, then indigo, apple green, sky blue, orange, peach, mauve, turquoise blue, lilac, moss green, ruby red, burnt umber, indian yellow, vermillion, lapis lazuli, and so on from horizon to horizon. and between the hill, separating color from color, flowed streams of gold and silver sand.

The sea of galilee and the dead sea are made of the same water. it flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of herman and the roots of the cedars of lebanon. the sea of galilee makes beauty of it, the sea of galilee has an outlet. it gets to give. it gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the jordan plain. but the dead sea with the same water makes horror. for the dead sea has no outlet. it gets to keep.

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