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"Religion is a deal, whereas spirituality is a journey." The Odd Couple

"Religion is a deal, whereas spirituality is a journey." The Odd Couple

As long as man has lived, he has tried to avoid wars and therefore, maintained them.

Surrender the Tender

The "better" self the ego seeks is always one that is more special...

The ego may see some good, but never only good.

Time itself is your choice. As always, your choice is determined by what you value.

The ego is quite literally a fearful thought.

You cannot separate yourself from the truth by "giving" autonomy to behavior.

To have peace, teach peace to learn it.

"In my defenselessness my safety lies."

"“Rather, as the product of the decentralized networked-era culture, it is less about victory than sustainability. It is not about one-pointedness, but inclusion. It is not about scoring a victory, but groping toward consensus. It is not like a book; it is like the internet.”

Well, the waiting is over. Here we are..

It is a story of processes rather than batches.

a smile the whole while

The Watch
Mister Juarroz imagined a watch that instead of showing the time would depict space. A watch where the large hand would indicate on a map the exact location where a person was at any given moment. "And what about the small hand? What would that show?" asked his wife. "The location of God," answered Mister Juarroz.

"God made Man because He loves stories." Elie Wiesel, The Gates of the Forest

'Art is necessary in order that humans should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it.'

We do not want our sages to have bodies, egos, drives, vitality, sex, money, relationships, or life, because those are what habitually torture us, and we want out.

Dominated and marginalized people have been socialized to see always more than their own point of view.

Marsh confronts the assumptions and prejudices that have combined to disparage the sincerity of Isherwood's religious life. Vedanta philosophy.

Gass ponders theoretical matters connected with literature: form and metaphor, and specifically, one of its genetic parts—the sentence.

He shouted twice, at intervals: "I'm still here." But there was no answering cry, only a stone that rolled down the slope, perhaps by accident, perhaps from a poorly aimed throw.

"I repeat: there was no attraction for me in mimicking humans; I mimicked them because I was looking for a way out, for no other reason." A Report to an Academy

"A deer offers himself to the hunter, is shot, is skinned, is scraped. Becomes a hide. Becomes a shield. Stretched tight across a frame. Becomes a drum."

"Exactly so. The feminine, having sight, is covered by the masculine that is blind. But that oddity disappears when you know they are worn by one dancer as his mask. They are danced."

"Knot of pine, so foolish, I think. That's metaphysical. He was a fool. Better off if he had stayed wood. He would have lived forever if he'd stayed wood- but he wanted to be bleed-able, pierce-able -sloppy, able to be crushed, cut, changed."

"One day I will live where there are tunnels for bullets, where there are domes over the cities, where sunset is designed months in advance, and rain showers come with music-even the dark side, the danger, is covered with polymer-I was getting closer."