“There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a true image of the Anglo-Saxon mind, or at least an echo of that consciousness which considered transcience and loss to be part of the human estate; it was a world in which life was uncertain and the principal diety was fate or destiny or "wyrd."” WorldMindHumansLossConsciousnessDestinyFateCivilizationDustContemplationPrincipalEchoesUncertainEstatesAnglo SaxonOld English Author:Peter Ackroyd
“Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.” PeopleIfsMenGivingArtEndsEnoughCarePainRememberCoursesMemoriesLossPowerfulHealingTakenReturnMountainDevilArmyNotionDustHardshipAshesEnough TimeGod Is ThereDust To Dust Author:Diana Gabaldon
“Reality is a state of mind. To the banker, the money in his ledger book is all very real, though he doesn't actually see it or touch it. But to the Brahma, it simply doesn't exist the way the air and the earth, pain and loss do. To him, the banker's reality is folly. To the banker, the Brahma's ideas are as inconsequential as dust.” WayMindBookIdeasRealStatesRealityEarthPainLossAirDustFollyState Of MindHinduismBankersBrahmaInconsequentialPain And Loss Book:The Gemma Doyle Trilogy Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy