God is very quiet,
for there is no conflict in Him.
Conflict is the root of all evil …
―A Course in Miracles
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Nature/Nurture
As I watched the seagulls, I thought,
That’s the road to take;
find the absolute rhythm and
follow it with absolute trust.
—Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis
Restoration
Now, begin to rain
intelligence and compassion
Upon all your tender,
wounded cells
—Hafez
Overexcitability
Consider the black widow spider. It’s a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.
—Stranger in a Strange Land,
C’est La Vie
We’re here. Where the story of our lives takes place. Nowhere else. We have no lover but those in our sleep. We have no human desires. All we know is the faces of animals, the form and beauty of the forests. We’re afraid of ourselves. Our bodies are cold. We are made up of cold and fear and desire. They used to burn us. They kill us still in Kuwait and the wilder parts of Arabia. —Marguerite Duras