unless we seek to understand...

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"Each of us," I said to myself, 

"gets to thinking of himself as the center of the universe... 

Now, it is evident that we can't all be centers.  

There aren't enough universes to go around.  

If we keep on trying it, 

I can see nothing ahead of us but celestial collisions -

 and chaos... 

How shall we all learn to live together agreeably...? 

 And how can we do that 

unless we understand one another?

~David Grayson, Adventures in Understanding

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the fact is...

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"I wonder if ever you change human beings 

with arguments alone: 

either peppering them with little sharp facts 

or by blowing them up with great guns of truth.  

You scare 'em, but do you change 'em?  

I wonder if ever you make any real difference in human beings 

without understanding them and loving them.  

For facts are not to be thrown at people 

like dishes or vegetables, 

but somehow warmed into them."

~David Grayson, Adventures in Understanding

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for someone to pause long enough...

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"I began to have a strong sense, 

among all these hurrying people... 

of being utterly alone, aloof.

It was as though I were wearing a magic cloak of invisibility, 

for it seemed 

that I could see all these passing people 

without their seeing me.

They went by 

as though I were not there at all...

and yet I felt that I was well worth knowing; 

if only someone would stop long enough to know me!"

~David Grayson, Adventures in Understanding

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rediscovery

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I have discovered again the beauty of the near,

the charm of the common.

~David Grayson, Adventures in Understanding

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