Tag: !goði
“A god steps down from the mountain. He walks through the dark forest. There are wild beasts everywhere in the silent darkness. It must be real. I’m not dreaming. I’m telling the truth. Now I’m in one world, now in the other. I can’t stop it.”
—
Ingmar Bergman,
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
“Some of it is ugly, obscene and bestial, some of it is pure and holy and spiritual: all of it is myself.”
— James Joyce, To Nora Barnacle Joyce, 7 September 1909 (via open-your-skull)
“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”
— Joseph Campbell
(via badgerlips)
“Can love be divided into the sacred and the profane, the human and the divine, or is there only love?”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
preface to the poem “Waiting,” from After Estrangement by Molly Bendall (Gibbs Smith Publishing, 1992)
…for grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.
Catherynne M. Valente
My people pray in places where the pious fear to tread.
The “man” I walked with on the railroad tracks last night (via bodaciousbanshee)
You kissed his mouth with mouths of flame: you made the hornèd god your own:
You stood behind him on his throne:
you called him by his secret name.
Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx (via atreides)
One may observe all the laws and still be practicing a disguised polytheism. For if in performing a religious act one’s intention is to please a human being whom he fears or from whom he hopes to receive benefit, then it is not God whom he worships but a human being.
Abraham Joshua Heschel (via eshusplayground)
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