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— Edward Gibbon"[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy."
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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality," says one of my favorite Byzantine mystics. I did this when a child; I do it now as well in the most creative moments of my life.
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