The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.  [Albert Einstein]

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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. [Emily Dickenson]

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Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and child-like mirthfulness. If you would know aught, be joyful before it.  [Henry David Thoreau]

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I do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the teachers of old. I seek what they sought.
[Matsuo Basho]

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Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince can depend on it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about. [James McNeill Whistler]

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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment; cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.  [Jelaluddin Rumi]

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