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“Sometimes one controls one's acts; one controls less often one's thoughts; one never controls one's dreams. I had dreams.”
― Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate
― Alexis o el tratado del inútil combate
“Would it be said they were abandoned or taken, the way people said a girl was attacked, a woman was raped, this femaleness always at the centre, as if womanhood itself were the cause of these things? As if the girls somehow, through the natural way of things, did it to themselves.”
― The Natural Way of Things
― The Natural Way of Things
“My dreams fill me and help me eat time.”
― The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
― The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
“What you say is true,’ said Fr. Dioscuros with a smile. ‘You can pray anywhere. After all, God is everywhere, so you can find him everywhere.’ He gestured to the darkening sand dunes outside: ‘But in the desert, in the pure clean atmosphere, in the silence – there you can find yourself . And unless you begin to know yourself, how can you even begin to search for God?”
― From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
― From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
“I asked my mother what she believed about the soul and she thought for a moment. Then, looking not at me but at the hard, white light before us, she said that she believed that we were all essentially nothing, just series of sensations and desires, none of it lasting. When she was growing up, she said that she had never thought of herself in isolation, but rather as inextricably linked to others. Nowadays, she said, people were hungry to know everything, thinking that they could understand it all, as if enlightenment were just around the corner. But, she said, in fact there was no control, and understanding would not lessen any pain.”
― Cold Enough for Snow
― Cold Enough for Snow
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