“The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.” LooksMomentsLeftForceConsciousnessImaginePositionStrangeDespairAngelFundamentalsAssumingTerrorInstantQuestioningAngelicFlooding Book:Sixty stories Source: Sixty stories
“God wants us to be in joy, God wants us to be happy. Because of this extraordinary consciousness and this great ability for wonder and marvel, and without denying any of the terrors and horrors of the world, we also have an obligation toward joy and toward miracle and excitement.” WorldWantJoyAbilityConsciousnessWonderHorrorMiracleExtraordinaryTerrorObligationExcitementWant UJoy God Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything.” WorldTwoConsciousnessEffectsChangedBuildingExtraordinaryBlowTerrorNarrative Author:Don DeLillo
“Not long ago, a novelist could believe he could have an effect on our consciousness of terror. Today, the men who shape and inflence human consciousness are the terrorists.” MenBelieveHumansLongTodayConsciousnessEffectsHe ManShapesTerrorTerroristNovelistsLong AgoHuman Consciousness Author:Don DeLillo
“"The War on Consciousness" is really all physical manifestations and all those problems are ultimately just a war on your way of thinking. Especially now, when we're involved in the war on terror. Terror is a psychological term. Terrorism is a political term. Terrorist is a sociopolitical term. But terror is a psychological thing.” ThinkingWarProblemPoliticalTermConsciousnessTerrorTerrorismTerroristPsychologicalManifestationWar On Terror Author:Mark McGwire