Rhema

“What is education? I should suppose that education was the curriculum one had to run through in order to catch up with oneself,”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Kierkegaard Collection

“If you can finally go to the bathroom wherever you find one, if you can finally order a cup of coffee and drink it wherever coffee is available, but you cannot follow your heart-you cannot respect the response of your own honest body in the world-then how much of what kind of freedom does any one of us possess?
Or, conversely, if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force?”
― June Jordan, Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays

“Quiet the noise and tune in, recognize the heartbeat that pounds away at your chest. This is life. A precious gift we receive from our ancestors; a mercy that leads us to days forward. Your existence was not by coincidence but by calculated orchestration.”
― Ehime Ora, Spirits Come from Water: An Introduction to Ancestral Veneration and Reclaiming African Spiritual Practices

“One must lie low, no matter how much it went against the grain, and try to understand that this great organization remained, so to speak, in a state of delicate balance, and that if someone took it upon himself to alter the dispositions of things around him, he ran the risk of losing his footing and falling to destruction, while the organization would simply right itself by some compensating reaction in another part of its machinery – since everything interlocked – and remain unchanged, unless, indeed, which was very probable, it became still more rigid, more vigilant, severer, and more ruthless.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial