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Laura Perry
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Sanity in Insane Times
The world is pretty chaotic these days: political turbulence, hate crimes, pollution, economic unsteadiness. Some days it feels like the ground is slipping out from under our feet even as we try to walk forward - or just stand still.How can we find stability in times like this? What is there to hold onto?Folks in my grandparents' generation would have told us to turn to religion (Christianity, in
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“re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
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“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
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“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
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“Though archaeologists have found traces of early hominids dating back 130,000 years in southern Crete, most scholars agree that human settlement did not occur until about 9,000 years ago, in the Late Stone Age. These early farmers and herders probably came across the Mediterranean from Asia Minor. First they settled along the eastern tip of Crete, then slowly expanded westward over the island. They built small houses of stone or wattle-and-daub, and buried their dead in caves.”
― Ariadne's Thread: Awakening the Wonders of the Ancient Minoans in our Modern Lives
― Ariadne's Thread: Awakening the Wonders of the Ancient Minoans in our Modern Lives
“The Minoans were influential enough that Minoan-style frescoes have been found in Egypt, Anatolia, and the Levant. So either Minoan artists traveled to other regions to ply their trade, or else foreign artists came to Crete to study the Minoan art style. Or possibly both. The people of Crete also began what appears to be Europe’s earliest murex dye trade, centuries before the purple dye became famous as a Phoenician product.”
― Ariadne's Thread: Awakening the Wonders of the Ancient Minoans in Our Modern Lives
― Ariadne's Thread: Awakening the Wonders of the Ancient Minoans in Our Modern Lives
“For having made such a great impression on the ancient world, Crete is remarkably small. The island itself is only 150 miles long and barely 20 miles wide, resting in the blue-green Mediterranean Sea just southeast of Greece. It is almost equally distant from Europe, Asia and Africa, an ideal position from which to wield social as well as economic influence in the ancient world. The island is dramatic to behold. The rocky beaches and lowlands turn sharply upward toward a steep and craggy central mountain range. These sacred mountains reach an incredible 8,000 feet in altitude at their height, a truly spectacular home for Crete’s goddesses and gods.”
― Ariadne's Thread: Awakening the Wonders of the Ancient Minoans in our Modern Lives
― Ariadne's Thread: Awakening the Wonders of the Ancient Minoans in our Modern Lives
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“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
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Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
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“HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.”
― Hogfather
― Hogfather
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
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