Narges

“Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.”
― Nasir-i Khusraw

“I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Whales and Men

“Melancholy, being a kind of vacatio, separation of soul from body, bestowed the gift of clairvoyance and premonition. In the classifications of the Middle Ages, melancholy was included among the seven forms of vacatio, along with sleep, fainting, and solitude. The state of vacatio is characterized by a labile link between soul and body which makes the soul more independent with regard to the sensible world and allows it to neglect its physical matrix in order, in some way, better to attend to its own business.”
― Ioan Petru Culianu, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance

“From that which came within itself, it built its table on my shelf, then, roaming freely, out of sight, it must have found my bed last night.”
― Sef Daystrom, The Riddle Chest: 50 Original Riddles to Stump Your Brain