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How will we live to create? Will we be painters who cover up mistakes with a new stroke or different color to distract from the error? This is easier. It takes less time, and we don’t have to change the overall image for anyone to see.
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But if we are to have vision, will we instead see others and even ourselves in the same way a sculptor sees marble - a sculptor who knows that she cannot just cover it up and put it all back together as if it was never fractured? Instead, she knows that to have it restored, she has to have insight for what it can wholly become - something different but ever faithful to its essence. It will never be what it was, for its nature is too rich to be patched up. But the eye of a sculptor looks into the form of the marble and knows that the guided chisel can shape it into something. Not as it was before, but uncompromisingly true to its essence, and lovely.
"Naomi Zacharias - The Scent of Water (via spwilliamsinspiration)
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