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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3c309aa | Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,But an eternal now does always last. | Abraham Cowley | ||
| ab02e9c | An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,And fell adown his shoulders with loose care. | Abraham Cowley | ||
| be60ed7 | Thus each extream to equal danger tends,Plenty as well as Want can separate Friends; | Abraham Cowley | ||
| ddffa78 | When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light. | Abraham Isaac Kook | ||
| 2ecefad | The good will is all -- and all the talents are ways to fulfill it. | Abraham Isaac Kook | ||
| 672ec65 | Admit your love for homosexuals. | Jair Bolsonaro | ||
| a3238a2 | A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing. | Abraham Isaac Kook | ||
| 3de726a | We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit. | Abraham Isaac Kook | ||
| 7ce29ae | For all its God language, the Twelve Step program isn't actually an attempt at religious conversion. Really, it just tries to bring us to a place of new spiritual understanding that allows us to live differently in this world. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
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E cosi passai attraverso lo specchio, passai nel mondo a rovescio, dove il su e giu e il cibo e ingordigia, dove le pareti sono rivestite di specchi convessi, dove la morte e onorevole e la carne debole. Andarci e facilissimo. Piu difficile trovare la via del ritorno. Rivedo la mia vita come si guarda un brutto film d'azione, seduti sull'orlo della sedia gridando: <|
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| 4d44dc3 | So what are the spiritual principles that we want guiding us as we interact with others? I can think of a few that are, to me, indispensable: Love, agape, the Greek word that means love of all. Generosity: giving all that we have, giving from the bottomless spiritual well. Empathy: another kind of giving, a giving of the open heart. Honesty: a way of giving the true self. Acceptance: giving people the freedom to be who they are. These are o.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 6ac0ed9 | The reward is entrance to the "world of the Spirit," which is to say, entrance to this world, a place at this table, in this human life. I am not much concerned about the existence of a hereafter, a "next" life--this life is what I have, this is where I live, and I believe that my spiritual growth depends upon the work I do here and now. That work amounts to seeing this world clearly, moving through it gently, and learning to love it well." | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 89649b0 | It has been argued that food and eating have replaced sex as our foremost cultural taboo.7 To some extent I agree with this but would point out that the taboo is not against food, or sex, or flesh, but against a loss of control. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 4d01d13 | Sitting out there on the porch, I laughed. How funny--to think of us turning our clocks this way and that, importantly telling the sun when to rise and when to set, when we would prefer it to be light and when dark. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| bc0c136 | They are solid, real. I am an object, useful but hollow. The absence of thought fills me up. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 1a6323d | comprehending little and caring less. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| f6e625a | The lesson of daily spiritual practice is not a complicated one and requires no special equipment; we are simply learning to love. That, at the end of the day, is where a spiritual practice takes us: out into the world, living in and loving this world of the spirit, here and now. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| aded056 | Steps Six and Seven are often brushed off, especially by the nonbeliever, because they seem to assume a direct relationship with a personal God. But they really are essential, and reconceptualizing them in a way that allows us to reach their spiritual core--the development of a clear moral self--is crucially important to those of us working the Steps in sobriety. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| cc05f06 | My most salient memories | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 47422a8 | My mother insulted me, I insulted her, Jeanne, the stepgrandmother, insulted everything in a skirt, and my grandfather just kept right on drinking. We picked at our food, competing for who could eat the least. When | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 3673305 | It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of deadly contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength. A wish to prove that you need nothing, that you have no human hungers, which turns on itself and becomes a searing need for the hunger itself. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| a93ea5a | for the purposes of my own spirituality, it is far more useful to recognize the limitations of my knowledge; to humble myself, not before a deity, but simply to be humble; to surrender, again, not to a God but simply to surrender; and to accept. Not accept certain facts; but simply to train myself in the practice of acceptance. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| c4fb012 | It's my secret, my saviour. It's reliable. It saves me from the unpredictable mind, where the thoughts are a cesspool, swirling, eddying with rip tide. When I starve, the sinking, pressing, black sadness lifts off me and I feel weightless, empty, light. No racing thoughts, no need to move, no reasons to hide in the dark. When I throw up, I purge all the fears, paranoia, the thoughts. The eating disorder gives me comfort. I couldn't let it g.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 4a3f890 | The physical food transubstantiates in our minds into something more ethereal, of human and emotional nurturance, a sense that our hungers are being sated. Even if you are just stuffing handfuls of fries into your mouth on a binge, you still feel that some emptiness, if briefly, is being filled. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| d7e03b0 | The side of me that feared fire and longed for ice, that cringed at noise and hungered for silence, that shied from touch and desired to numb itself into nothing. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 0b0f323 | we have few words for spiritual beyond those that refer back to a God. But not believing in a God is not opposed to a belief in an aspect of the self that can be called spiritual. The latter is experienced, and defined, very personally, and is different for each individual. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 9d77b39 | Call it the feeling of love that connects us. Call it the creative force that drives us to transform. Call it our energy. Call it our capacity to give. Call it grace, or even divinity, something that allows for those things to exist within us as individuals and between us each time we connect. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 4639535 | I had a love affair with books, with the characters and their worlds. Books kept me company | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 77ac456 | It is easy to write off childlike faith in the universe and childlike wonder at the world as simply a lack of knowledge about "how life really is." Well, how is life, really? Do we know--we who have been denying life, life's beauty and its true challenges, for such a long time? Or did we know better as children, when the whole world seemed to be filled with meaning and possibility, both good and bad?" | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 3a3e81c | I do doubt she ever felt so cluttered and noisy and jangled that she put her boot through the ice. As soon as I did it, I could just hear her saying in alarm, "Well. My stars!" But there are days I do feel that way, and I am beginning to know that it is because I hold on. I fight. I resist. It doesn't even matter what I resist; there is simply something in me that tends to resist things as they are. I have been fighting since I was very sma.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 3554455 | TO PURSUE THE AMERICAN DREAM IS NOT ONLY FUTILE BUT SELF-DESTRUCTIVE, BECAUSE ULTIMATELY IT DESTROYS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE." --Hubert Selby Jr." | Jonathan Shaw | ||
| fb1049f | It was in her abode, in the janitorial quarters assigned her on the ground floor rear, that seemingly inoffensive Mrs. Shapiro set up a clandestine alcohol dispensary--not a speakeasy, but a bootleg joint, where the Irish and other shikkers of the vicinity could come and have their pint bottles filled up, at a price. And several times on weekends, when Ira was there, for he got along best with Jake, felt closest to him, because Jake was art.. | Henry Roth | ||
| 5c6be49 | Now Sentimental Education doesn't read as if Flaubert was having fun; Letter to His Father doesn't read as if Kafka was having fun; The Sorrows of Young Werther sure as hell doesn't read as if Goethe was having fun. Sure, Henry Miller seems like he's having fun, but he had to cross three thousand miles of Atlantic before saying 'cunt'. | Philip Roth | ||
| e55fb3a | There were the artifacts. The signed Lichtenstein that was presented as a wedding gift. The watercolor by Henry Miller for when I was born. Robert Lowell's notes on her poems. Philip Roth and Saul Bellow were guests at the house and praised her work. | Ariel Leve | ||
| 3ae4ceb | But fortunately no shadow ever broke a rock, and one can ask himself why he lives a thousand times and yet never die. | Henry Roth | ||
| b7cbe8e | kleege, | Henry Roth | ||
| 417451f | Yes, I'm homophobic - and very proud of it. | Jair Bolsonaro | ||
| d7fa1dc | Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds. | Abraham Joshua Heschel | ||
| a2d8bb3 | Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God. | Abraham Joshua Heschel | ||
| b0b3e38 | Congressmen should not take the bus. | Jair Bolsonaro | ||
| b283bf0 | To Hosea, marriage is the image of the relationship of God and Israel. ... Idolatry is adultery. | Abraham Joshua Heschel | ||
| 3079715 | It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final. | Abraham Joshua Heschel | ||
| 5e8e8ea | Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts. | Abraham Joshua Heschel | ||
| eba1db6 | Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember! | Abraham Joshua Heschel |