"Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin."

-- Anatole France

#Love Quotes #Fear Quotes #Religion Quotes

“Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.”
“In most musical instruments the resonator is made of wood while the actual sound generator is of animal origin. In cultures where music is still used as a magical force, the making of an instrument always involves the sacrifice of a living being. That being's soul then becomes part of the instrument and in the tones that come forth, the 'singing dead,' who are ever present with us, make themselves heard.”
“I sit before flowers â€¨hoping they will train me in the art â€¨of opening up”
“Societies that exclude the exoskeleton of religion should reflect carefully to what will happen to them over several generations. We donâ€™t really know, because the first atheistic societies have only emerged in Europe in the last few decades. They are the least efficient societies ever known at turning resources (of which they have a lot) into offspring (of which they have few).”
“Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars.”

Source : Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”
“If I'm working on a set of songs, and thinking about putting them together in a collection, I start to think about what they have in common. Either on purpose or without meaning to, I shape them all in the same kind of way, because I'd rather the album feel like a galaxy of things that all have to do with each other. I do that with sonic elements, too - it's a matter of each record having its own specific identity.”
“I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.93, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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