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And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

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Howard Thurman
Age: 81 †
Born: 1899
Born: November 18
Died: 1981
Died: April 10
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West Palm Beach
Florida
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Prayer is a form of communication between God and man and man and God... I am always impressed by the fact that it is recorded that the only thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them how to do was to pray.
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Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life and hatred was the great denial.
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