Mystery

Aug. 2nd, 2023 04:26 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the infinite in words?”

—W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge



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Dressup

Jul. 12th, 2023 04:24 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“We're all gods playing dress up.”

—RuPaul, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.



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Food

May. 18th, 2023 03:27 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“Man becomes the food of the divinity he worships.

—Hindu proverb



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Dreams

Apr. 17th, 2023 02:02 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“All of this that is happening to me, and happening to others about me, is it reality or is it fiction? May not all of it perhaps be a dream of God, or of whomever it may be, which will vanish as soon as He wakes? And therefore when we pray to Him, and cause canticles and hymns to rise to Him, is it not that we may lull Him to sleep, rocking the cradle of His dreams? Is not the whole liturgy, of all religions, only a way perhaps of soothing God in His dreams, so that He shall not wake and cease to dream us?

—Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla [Mist]



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Oracles

Apr. 3rd, 2023 02:42 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“Oracles are never what they seem. For oracles to be oracles they have to contain something hidden. The more you think you understand them the less you probably do. That's where the danger lies. As ancient Greeks said, the words spoken by oracles are like seeds. They contain a fullness, a pregnancy of meaning, dimensions of relevance that only become apparent with time. Human language is like a splinter: fragmented, isolated, sticking out in one direction. But the language of the gods is full of surprises that surround you from all directions and jump out on you from behind.

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom



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Oracles

Feb. 9th, 2023 03:05 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“When gods spoke through oracles they spoke in a way that's hard for humans to understand. The hardness is what makes the difference between the human and the divine.

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom



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Tunnel

Jan. 26th, 2023 02:12 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“The presence of God.
In a tunnel of birdsong
a locked gate opens.

—Tomas Tranströmer, “Haikudikter”
(tr. Michael McGriff and Mikaela Grassl)



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Postman

Jun. 20th, 2022 02:51 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.”

—Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad



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Death

May. 20th, 2022 02:11 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Death is the only God who loves not gifts and cares not for sacrifices or libation, who has no altars and receives no hymns.”

—Aeschylus, Niobe



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Woods

May. 5th, 2022 04:11 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It’s almost like you know that God’s there.

—Richard Pryor, Richard Pryor Live in Concert



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Conspiracy

Apr. 14th, 2022 03:11 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“The conspiracy theory of society is just a version of…theism, of a belief in gods whose whims and wills rule everything. It comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?” His place is then filled by various powerful men and groups—sinister pressure groups, who are to be blamed for having planned the great depression and all the evils from which we suffer.”

—Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations



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Gods

Apr. 13th, 2022 02:22 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“For since it is not possible to speak rightly about the Gods without the Gods, much less can any one perform works which are of an equal dignity with divinity, and obtain the foreknowledge of every thing without [the inspiring influence of] the Gods.”

—Iamblichus, On the Mysteries (tr. Thomas Taylor)



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Enclosed

Apr. 7th, 2022 02:04 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“The soul is only partly confined to the body, just as God is only partly enclosed in the body of the world.”

—Sendivogius, De Sulphure



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Apollo

Jan. 5th, 2022 02:00 pm
pjthompson: (tarot)

"The question is Apollo. What do I need to know?"



This card jumped out of the deck and I thought the laurel wreath significant.

"Don't be afraid to ask for help."

Okay. I need to take a deep dive on Apollo. Any suggestions?

Gods

Oct. 27th, 2021 12:19 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“We can never be gods, after all—but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”

—N. K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms



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Energy

Jun. 9th, 2021 02:57 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Sometimes a god shows up or a deity or a spirit or even an energy. I think that this doesn’t get any play, but it happens. A craft can come and initiate you. Suddenly, you start seeing books about knitting everywhere and you’re like, “Whoa, I am dreaming about knitting,” and sure, that can be backed up by weaving deities and the lineage of grandmother spirits…Energy, whether it be deity or ancestral energy or even a gift can absolutely move into our life in a shocking and overwhelming way, demanding our attention, demanding that we bring our attention to it and that can be very harrowing.”

—Chiron Armand, The Hermit’s Lamp, Episode 102, December 14, 2019



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Scorn

Jun. 3rd, 2021 01:45 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“The gods granted man great and dazzling virtues that put him in a position to overcome all. But at the same time they granted him a bitterer virtue which makes him scorn afterward everything that can be overcome.”

—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1952 (tr. Justin O’Brien)



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Whirling

Apr. 9th, 2021 02:34 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“You must descend from
your head into your heart.
At present your thoughts of God
are in your head. And God Himself is,
as it were, outside you, and
so your prayer and other spiritual
exercises
remain exterior. Whilst you are still
in your head,
thoughts will not easily be subdued but
will always be whirling about, like snow
in winter or
clouds of mosquitoes in summer.

—St. Theophan the Recluse, in For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics, ed. Roger Housden



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Search

Jan. 18th, 2021 02:06 pm
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)
Random quote of the day:

“He is our Father who is in heaven—not elsewhere. If we think to have a Father here below it is not he, it is a false God. We cannot take a single step towards him. We do not walk vertically. We can only turn our eyes towards him. We do not have to search for him, we only have to change the direction in which we are looking. It is for him to search for us. We must be happy in the knowledge that he is infinitely beyond our reach. Thus we can be certain that the evil in us, even if it overwhelms our whole being, in no way sullies the divine purity, bliss and perfection.”

—Simone Weil, Waiting for God (tr. Emma Craufurd)



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Silence

Dec. 4th, 2020 01:36 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“God is the silence of the universe, and man is the cry that gives meaning to that silence.”

—José Saramago, Lanzorote Notebooks



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