"Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is to disrupt the total order of the universe. Reverence will be total or it will not be at all. The universe does not come to us in pieces any more than a human individual stands before us with some part of his/her being."

-- Thomas Berry

#Integrity Quotes #Self Quotes #Order Quotes

“Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.”
“I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.”

Source : "Balanced?". Interview with Stevie Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.
“The truth about stories is, that's all we are.”
“In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.”
“Bathe in the splendor of your own Light.”
“God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life.”
“it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.”
“For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldnâ€™t last for very long and Iâ€™d be sad again and then it would be worse because itâ€™s one thing to be sad and itâ€™s another thing to be sad once youâ€™ve been happy. Being sad after youâ€™ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.”

Source : Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.195, Cinco Puntos Press

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