Forwarded from Ghost of de Maistre
“When individuals have finished purifying and voiding themselves of all forms and apprehensible images, they will abide in this pure and simple light and be perfectly transformed in it.” – St. John of the Cross, The Ascent of Mount Carmel, Book 2 15:4
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Forwarded from Musings of the Maenad🍇
A mosaic depicting Dionysus on a leopard, from the floor in the ‘House of Dionysus’ at Pella, late 4th century BC, Pella
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Forwarded from The way of the warrior
Thus when heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, making him worthy of being the ruler of men, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.
It exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty. It confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, removes his incompetence and perfects his soul.
~ Mencius
It exposes his body to hunger, and subjects him to extreme poverty. It confounds his undertakings. By all these methods it stimulates his mind, hardens his nature, removes his incompetence and perfects his soul.
~ Mencius
Forwarded from Revolt Against The Modern World
"What flows into you from myth is not truth but reality (truth is always about something, but reality is that about which truth is), and therefore, every myth becomes the father of innumerable truths on the abstract level."
~C. S. Lewis
"After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear."
~J.R.R. Tolkien
~C. S. Lewis
"After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear."
~J.R.R. Tolkien
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