It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. And what could be more terrifying and beautiful, to souls like the Greeks or our own, than to lose control completely? To throw off the chains of being for an instant, to shatter the …
Tag Archives: words
jediknightofarkay: “To this my soul spoke a word that roused my anger: “My light is not of this world.” I cried,“I know of no other world.” The soul answered, “Should it not exist because you know nothing of it?”” — Carl Jung | The Red Book. (via vulturehooligan)
wearepaladin: “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled off wasn’t convincing the world he didn’t exist. It was convincing the world that he was somehow necessary, that the presence of evil was somehow required for the sake of balance, so the world would grow passive at his presence at best, support it at worst. A …
wearebeguiler: xshayarsha: “Every angel is terrifying.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, from Duino Elegies. @we-are-knight
dwergaz: “Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.” — Anna Garlin Spencer (Unitarian, minister, reformer) Parting Words (1902)
madamebadger: I have found the poetry of Pablo Neruda, and as is always the case when I find a poet who speaks to me, there is that moment of recognition: Oh! You see me! I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I …
thequantumqueer: addignisherlock: just-shower-thoughts: Saying “Fuck it” actually motivates me more than “You can do this”. Because saying “fuck it” includes the total acceptance of failure as the outcome, meanwhile “you can do this” focuses only on the hopes of a successful outcome and the lack of acknowledgement of the equally probable failure outcome induces a …
lady-arryn: “But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?” — Kazuo Ishiguro, in his 2017 Nobel prize acceptance speech (via smiththeteacher)
tosfumarewords: “Mythology has been interpreted by the modern intellect as a primitive, fumbling effort to explain the world of nature (Frazer); as a production of poetical fantasy from prehistoric times, misunderstood by succeeding ages (Müller); as a repository of allegorical instruction, to shape the individual to his group (Durkheim); as a group dream, symptomatic of …
rpmusings-galore: I am no longer ( whole ) but, there is a L I G H T inside of me. if i am breaking, then i will …
Text 