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Whispers and Vanities: Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion

by Tamasailau M. Sualii-Sauni

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May 13, 2015 06:22AM

“Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

tags: death, dignity, faith, haiku, healing, heaven, human-mortality, love, metaphysics, national-poetry-month, philosophy, rebirth, recovery, resurrection, spirituality, starting-over, wisdom

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“History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

tags: individuality, philosophy

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“But that's always a certain way to recognise a facist: when he's more powerful he kills everything that's different from him, he uses only brute force while law breaks like glass under his boots. And then, when he loses and when he's weak, he invokes the law and tolerance of differences. All of a sudden, he knows by heart every single human rights convention he broke so many times before.”
― Andrej Nikolaidis

tags: equality, facism, human-rights, intolerance, law, tolerance

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“Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ”
― Elizabeth Stone

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“There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

tags: faith, god, ignorance, intolerance, religion

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