Brennan Manning  - Quotes

 The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi. 

Tags: christlikeness   jesus   suffering   wounds     


Rainer Maria Rilke  - Quotes

 Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from. 

Tags: childlikeness   defensiveness   loneliness   scorn   wisdom     
Kurt Vonnegut  - Quotes

 It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put the idea into Earthlings' heads that the whole Universe had been created by one big animal who looked just like them. He sat on a throne with a lot of less fancy thrones all around him. When people died they got to sit on those other thrones forever because they were such close relatives of the Creator.

The people down here just ate that up!
 

Tags: creator   fantasy   gods   likeness   reality     




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