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“I understand more that pain is evidence to our awakening to truth and also a measure of closeness to truth.”
― Motive Black
― Motive Black
“... do your lot wake up and think hmm, what can I do to ruin the planet today?”
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
― The Octunnumi Fosbit Files Prologue
“Meditation without love is like drinking tea from an empty cup.”
― Just Love Her
― Just Love Her
“ In 1658, Francis Andrew Ransome stole the Alchemy Scroll from St. Julian’s college, my present employer. Ransome was a member of a transatlantic group called The Invisible College. They were alchemists, meaning they worked with matter and spirit together.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“Although it is uncomfortable to admit it, and many scientists especially try to brush it under the carpet, each of us is a bundle of rational and irrational impulses, and the attempt to divorce the two is doomed to failure...In this sense the Presocratic combination of vision and logic is a precise model for two strands of future development in human intellectual endeavor, which should not perhaps have been allowed to separate from each other as far as they sometimes have. Or rather, the attempt to separate them is ultimately unreal, a violation which leads to abominations such as the rape of the planet and the dehumanizing loss of imagination...As Homer well knew, the gods in some disguise or other never die.”
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