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“Sound had always been sacred to the Aryans—it was far more important to them than the meaning of these hymns—so when they intoned and memorised them, the priests felt possessed by a sacred presence. The idea that the sound of a sacred text could be more important than the truths it conveys immediately challenges our modern notion of “scripture,” which, of course, implies a written text.”
― The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts
― The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts
“In horrible destruction laid thus low,
As far as Gods and Heav'nly Essences
Can Perish: for the mind and spirit remains
Invincible, and vigour soon returns,
Though all our Glory extinct, and happy state
Here swallow'd up in endless misery.”
― Paradise Lost
As far as Gods and Heav'nly Essences
Can Perish: for the mind and spirit remains
Invincible, and vigour soon returns,
Though all our Glory extinct, and happy state
Here swallow'd up in endless misery.”
― Paradise Lost
“As Solomon ben Jehiel (1510–74), known as Maharshal, explained, scripture was the Word of God, so that even if the heavens and the oceans were ink, they would not suffice to expound a single passage of scripture, record all the doubts arising from it, and the many new ideas that it inspired.”
― The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts
― The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts
“Mary remembered with a mournful smile that she now had no one to write to, since Julie—whose presence gave her no pleasure—was here and they met every week.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“To do ought good never will be our task,
But ever to do ill our sole delight,
As being the contrary to his high will
Whom we resist.”
― Paradise Lost
But ever to do ill our sole delight,
As being the contrary to his high will
Whom we resist.”
― Paradise Lost
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