When science offers an answer, that answer is universal. Humans do not go to war over it; they rally around it.
I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight...
Absolution is the only escape. You must find a way to forgive the people who did this, or your rage will consume you whole.
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! – LEONARDO DA VINCI.
Newton’s Third Law of Child Rearing: For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.
I have witnessed people transform cancer cells into healthy cells simply by thinking about them. I have witnessed human minds affecting the physical world in myriad ways. And once you see that happen... once this becomes a part of your reality, then some of the miracles you read about become simply a matter of degree.
The chalice,” he said, “resembles a cup or vessel, and more important, it resembles the shape of a woman’s womb. This symbol communicates femininity, womanhood, and fertility.
Love is not a finite emotion. We don’t have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it.
In ancient mythology,” Langdon offered, “a hero in denial is the ultimate manifestation of hubris and pride. No man is more prideful than he who believes himself immune to the dangers of the world.
Fighting communicable disease was often like fighting a forest fire: sometimes you had to drop back and surrender a battle in hopes of winning the war.
As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!
It seemed no amount of praying could diminish the plague’s wrath. By the time city officials realized it was the rats that were causing the disease, it was too late, but Venice still enforced a decree by which all incoming vessels had to anchor offshore for a full forty days before they would be permitted to unload. To this day, the number forty – quaranta in Italian – served as a grim reminder of the origins of the word quarantine.
The male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart. The Priory of Sion believed that it was this obliteration of the sacred feminine in modern life that had caused what the Hopi Native Americans called koyanisquatsi – “life out of balance” – an unstable situation marked by testosterone-fueled wars, a plethora of misogynistic societies, and a growing disrespect for Mother Earth.
Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully. I see in your eyes that you have your mother’s generous soul. Your conscience will be your guide. When life is dark, let your heart show you the way.
The envious must climb with their eyes sewn shut so they cannot covet; the prideful must carry huge stones on their backs to bend them low in a humble manner; the gluttonous must climb without food or water, thereby suffering excruciating hunger; and the lustful must ascend through hot flames to purge themselves of passion’s heat.
The Holy Grail ‘neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o’er Her gates. Adorned in masters’ loving art, She lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.
How I long for more time... but time is a commodity even my vast fortune cannot afford.
If thoughts affect the world, then we must be very careful how we think. Destructive thoughts have influence, too, and we all know it’s far easier to destroy than it is to create.
Compassion is a universal language.
Sometimes you need to go up... to go down.