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Nitty-gritty Soul
Be like the last word you want to say before you leave the world.
— David Whyte
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“We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the Divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And what good is it to me if Mary is full of grace, but I am not also full of grace? What good is it to me for the Creator to give birth to his Son if I do not also give birth to him in my time and culture? This, then, is the fullness of time: when the Son of God is begotten in us.”
— Meister Eckhart
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Do not speak of religion until you’ve tasted love on the lips of a pagan and heard her moan the names of all the gods you refuse to believe in.
~H.D.Johnson
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There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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…In Parmenides’ poem the goddess of the underworld is the one who reveals not only the truth, but also the way in which human beings misrepresent the truth through their “science”.
