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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Any chance that ‘exstatic about’ could hint at ‘previously unmoved by’?
Edit: Checking on the etymology I’m not too clear if ‘state’ has anything to do with ‘ecstasy’ and how that connects with ‘stasis’ and ‘stand’ and so on. Someone seems to think so: “As I learned from Henri Nouwen years ago, Jesus calls us to live the ecstatic life, a life in which we move out of the static place. That is the meaning of the word: ex-static. Jesus calls us to live away from the same old place, that tired, dead, fixed place where nothing new can break forth, nothing new can be born”
Last edited by JuanTwoThree (2010-06-06 06:28:10)
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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