"In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality."

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Source : Bernadette Roberts (1985). “The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center”, p.34, SUNY Press

Bernadette Roberts

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“Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.”
“Peeta rinses the pearl off in the water and hands it to me. â€œFor you.â€ I hold it out on my palm and examine its iridescent surface in the sunlight. Yes, I will keep it. For the few remaining hours of my life I will keep it close. This last gift from Peeta. The only one I can really accept. Perhaps it will give me strength in the final moments.”
“The only thing you live to regret are the risks you didn't take”
“I finally managed to try to do away with myself, as neatly and concisely as possible. I would rather die young leaving various accomplishments, some work, my friendship with you, and some other artifacts intact, instead of pell-mell erasing all of these delicate things.”
“Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what youâ€™re capable ofÂ achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that youâ€™re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being.”
“There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.”
“Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.”
“It occurred to him that seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story.”

Source : "Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament". Book by John Crowley. Book 2, Chapter 3, 1981.

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