"Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need."

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Country Quotes #Past Quotes #Needs Quotes

“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”

Source : Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1999). “Awakening: A Sufi Experience”, Tarcher
“The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience -historical and otherwise- with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane...”
“If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and deception embellished them; that weakness worships them; that custom spares them; and that tyranny favors them in order to profit from the blindness of men.”
“Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.”
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
“When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.”
“Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.”
“If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.”

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