“Give me iron words forged in fire that I may speak the language of earth.”
― Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
― Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
“Mysticism revolves around the passion for ecstasy and a horror of the void. One cannot know one without the other. The road to ecstasy and the experience of the void presuppose a will to make the soul a tabula rasa, a striving towards psychological blankness. Once it has totally rejected the world, the soul is ripe for a long-term and fecund emptiness. Consciousness dilates beyond the limits of the cosmos. Stripping it of images is the essential condition for ecstatic spams. One sees nothing expect nothingness. And the latter has become everything. Ecstasy is plenitude in a void, a full void. It is an over-whelming frisson which convulses nothingness, an invasion of being in absolute emptiness. The void is the condition for ecstasy just as ecstasy is the condition for the void.”
― Tears and Saints
― Tears and Saints
“I remember the names of my ancestors. I speak the names of those I love. I speak their names and they live again. May I be so well-loved and remembered. In truth, may the gods hear my name. May I do work with my hands worth remembering.”
― Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
― Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
“and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Persephone to Hades
You are the kindest thing that ever happened to me, even if that is not how our tale is told.
When everyone else told me i was destined to be a forgotten nymph that nutured flowers and turn meadows gold,
you saw that the ichor that resides in me demanded its own throne. You showed me
how a love like ours can turn even the darkest, coldest realm into the happiest of homes.”
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You are the kindest thing that ever happened to me, even if that is not how our tale is told.
When everyone else told me i was destined to be a forgotten nymph that nutured flowers and turn meadows gold,
you saw that the ichor that resides in me demanded its own throne. You showed me
how a love like ours can turn even the darkest, coldest realm into the happiest of homes.”
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