#special projects workshop

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And remember, as it was written, to love another person is to see the face of God.

from Les Miserables

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And what is religion, you might ask: It's a technology of living.

Toni Cade Bambara

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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Simone Weil

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The sensations of my own body may be the only subject on which I am qualified to claim expertise. Sad and terrible, then, how little I know.

Eula Biss, “The Pain Scale” 

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“That physical sensation, a shiver induced by the mere sight of a thing, is the elusive charge sought after, rarely achieved, and even more difficult to sustain by any artists trafficking in the allure of images. This is the ineffable dimension of art often labeled “the sublime.” Thought of this way, fine art is a kind of secular religion. Indeed, the emotional tone of the best artworks can honestly be described as spiritual though not purposely driven by ecumenical intent.”

Kerry James Marshall  “A Black Artist Named White” in The Paris Review

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You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

C. S. Lewis

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…the bestowal of such pure attention is in itself a triumph of the spirit.

Joanna Macy

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As far as I am concerned, when all of the questions are not answered, when the extraordinary is not explained, when the unknown is not known, then there is room for God because the unexplained and the unknown is God.

Huey P. Newton