“Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?” IfsTogetherSexLossPleasureCreationBuddhismOppositesUnionsOneselfSexualityTemporaryComing TogetherWhat Is LifeYangYin And Yang Author:Frederick Lenz
“I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw love as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.” LoveSelfLossVirtueSawsSacrificeCreationSucceedLuckRewardsGenerosityStirringSelf Sacrifice Book:Harlot's Ghost: A Novel Source: Harlot's Ghost: A Novel
“And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.” MindSelfFeelingsOrderCultureVoiceLossStageCreationDivineProductsReturnTruth IsConsciousDirectAbsolutesResponsibleDebateJudgementReverseInwardMachineryGermsPrerequisites Author:Julian Jaynes
“I'm hoping to know and teach a Gospel that is true to Scripture - and the Gospel that I see in the Bible is COSMIC (big enough to redeem all of Creation) and RELATIONAL (getting at the root of the Fall - the loss of our relational capacities).” KnowsEnoughBigsFallLossTeachCreationCapacityRootsScriptureCosmic Author:Peter Robinson
“Do not take the creative process personally. At every stage, you are going to feel like it's all falling apart, like the golden egg of truth in your brain is not manifesting on the page or on set or in the edit. But that panic, that loss, that pain - that is the process of creation. Let it hurt, drink some coffee and keep going.” FeelsPainFallProcessHurtLossBrainCreativeStageCreationDrinkPagesCoffeeGoldenEggsKeep GoingManifestPanicCreative ProcessIt HurtsFalling ApartEditsGolden Eggs Author:Jessie Kahnweiler
“In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)” ThinkingShowsLosesLossResultsPrinciplesLandCreationWillingSkillsLosingDestructionFoolishNeighborhoodAlliesExileFellowshipStewardshipOutcastNonentity Author:Wendell Berry