Barny

“It is only within comparatively recent years that the homely stories in the mouths of the country-people have been constituted a branch of learning, and have had applied to them, as such, the methods and the terminology of science. No doubt a very noteworthy gain to knowledge has resulted from this treatment, — a curious department of research has been opened up, and light has been cast upon various outside things of greater importance than the subject of study itself. But, side by side with this gain to knowledge, is there not, involved in the method of treatment indicated, a loss to the stories themselves ? Classified, tabulated, scientifically named, they are no longer the wild free product of Nature that we knew and loved: — they are become, so to speak, a collection of butterflies in a case, an album of pressed wild flowers. No doubt they are still very interesting, and highly instructive ; but their poetry, their brightness, the fragrance which clung about them in their native air, their native soil, is in large measure gone!”
― Sir George Douglas, Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales

“was just unlucky. Luck plays a huge part in all the unfairness of the world. Even more than you’d expect.”
― Won-pyung Sohn, Almond

“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self--the deepest fears, the hidden desires--a powerful intimacy is born.”
― Sarah Pekkanen, An Anonymous Girl

“Without having an in-depth knowledge of the role of śakti in spiritual unfoldment, the study and practice of any spiritual tradition is like farming barren ground.”
― Rajmani Tigunait, Sakti: The Power in Tantra