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“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
― Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula
“...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.”
― Fugitive Pieces
― Fugitive Pieces
“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
The Night Circus
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Formerly The Reading Room. Will probably start a new group for each title as was suggested in the FB venue, for the same reasons. If you type in "The ...more
Spiritual Science Fiction
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— last activity Sep 18, 2021 05:47PM
Discussions related to science fiction with spiritual or religious associations, directions, and insight.
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