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“...It is the one time Dante calls such explicit attention to the idea of contrapasso-a word for which we have no exact translation, no precise definition in English, because the word in itself is i...”
“There are many causes for the increasing concentration of wealth in a shrinking elite, but let us throw one more into the mix: the ever more aggressive appropriations of the attentional commons tha...”
“We have been called to wrestle with sin through the cross of Jesus Christ”
“I'm going to Hell in a basketWeaved in from my sinsLike wickerWith little Wiccan tiesAs if I'm a witchAccused”
“Is it possible thatwe hate politics because we have forgotten its specifi c and limitednature, its overwhelming value, and also its innate fragility? Could it bethat our expectations are so high th...”
“Is it possible that we hate politics because we have forgotten its specific and limited nature, its overwhelming value, and also its innate fragility? Could it be that our expectations are so high ...”
“Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence call it what you will is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.”
“The fact that mammalian crying serves as a cue for maternal support, rather than as a dinner bell, is a major evolutionary difference.”
“It takes a certain level of consciousness to 'want' to grow your consciousness.”
“Religion isn't bad, it's our consciousness relativity to religion. There's a reason Mahatma Ghandi said "I like your Christ, I don't like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ....”
“We are all either conditioned by belief system or consciousness. Belief system is built through the world, consciousness is built from within.”
“Without hope there is no faith and without faith it is impossible to love. If we do not embrace love we cannot embrace hope and therefore have no purpose.”
“We carry the world. They did. All those young men did. They carried the world, and it was heavy, and they didn't know what to do with it. Was this the rest? Was this the war? Things had already spu...”
“The idea that the spirits of those once tortured in the house might still be there was the avenue his imagination began to explore. The groaning of the wood sounded like screams from the dungeon an...”
“Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.”
“What?' He cried, darting at him a look of fury: 'Dare you still implore the Eternal's mercy? Would you feign penitence, and again act an Hypocrite's part? Villain, resign your hopes of pardon. Thus...”
“Wisdom of the Ages: "Humility" If you don't have it, you're gonna get it.”
“A wiseman invests in something that lasts forever”
“Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected”
“I am simply not enough in myself, but in Him I am. This surrender is not weakness, but the only true measure of strength any of us have.”
