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Excellent, thought provoking and well researched. The evidence Muraresku presents for use of psychedelic infused wine and beer in the ancient world is compelling. It is interesting to think that the early christian euchararist in many of the sects ha
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“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
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“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.”
― The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
― The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
― Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
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