Pain and darkness have been our lot since the Fall of Man. But there must be some hope that we can rise to a higher level ... that consciousness can evolve to a plane more benevolent than its counterp...
It’s a Templar, said Duré, astonished to find a follower of the Muir here.
It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.
It is at times like this that I have the sense… the slightest sense… of what a sacrifice it must have been for the Son of God to condescend to become the Son of Man.
Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorized as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.
God is the creature, not the creator.
Gladstone had read Weintraub’s book, The Abraham Dilemma, in which he analyzed the relationship between a God who demanded the sacrifice of a son and the human race who agreed to it. Weintraub had rea...
But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains.
Brawne looks at Johnny, realizing that she is seeing in infrared now as the heat-lamp light from distant furnaces of data suns bathes them both. He is still handsome. —
At that point Lord Agamemnon, Atreus’ son, began shitting whole goats, laughs Orus, speaking loudly enough that several captains turn to frown at us.
Abraham came not to sacrifice, but to know once and for all whether this God was a god to be trusted and obeyed. No other test would do.
The lightning dance of gigantic hellwhip displays, beams the size of small worlds cutting their swath across light-hours and being contorted by the riptides of defensive singularities: the aurora shim...
That strange elasticity of the human heart in finding new relationships, new people to share one’s life with, new potentials.
Emptiness is a good sign; that it presages openness to a new level of awareness, new insights, new experiences.
Clusterboink
A degree in psychiatry merely qualifies one to begin learning about the intricacies and foibles of the human personality.
[A less-enlightened personage once asked Ummon What is the God-nature/Buddha/Central Truth> Ummon answered him A dried shit-stick]
Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen.
When you've spent thirty years entering rooms filled with strangers you feel less pressure than when you've had only half that number of years of experience. You know what the room and the people in i...
Trusting in Theo—quiet, efficient Theo—to get him through the morning. Trusting in luck to get him through the day. Trusting in the drinking at Cicero’s to get him through the night. Trusting in the u...