Holly

“We still do not know what Yeshua really said. We know only what a number of hearers and witnesses have heard. Scripture consists of what has been heard, not what has been said.”
― Jean-Yves Leloup, The Gospel of Philip: Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the Gnosis of Sacred Union

“62. O Zeus, our Father! Thou would’st deliver men from all the evils that oppress them 63. If thou wouldst show them the daimon of whom they make use. 64. But take courage; the race of man is divine.”
― Pythagoras, The Pythagorean Golden Verses & Hierocles' Commentary: An Ancient Handbook of Mystic Philosophy

“While there’s certainly a place for healthy passion and for strong stands against things that are harmful, most of the time we’re just overheated—caught up with some carrot or struggling with some stick. Then we feel driven, rattled, stressed, irritated, anxious, or blue. Definitely not happy. We need to lower the flames.”
― Rick Hanson, Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom

“He looked at the younger man Who had come into his consciousness. Youth is very Cruel to an old face, He said in a hushed voice. It looks into its lines for wisdom So touchingly But there is nothing there to find. Gilgamesh wanted to reach out to tell him He was wrong, sensing suddenly the hours One might spend alone in contemplating oldness As he himself had spent alone in his spoiled youth, Seeing nothing there but time.”
― Anonymous, Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative