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“You can pour holy oil and holy water on a thug until you have emptied buckets of both; but at the end he will be a consecrated thug, but a thug all the same unless interior intentions and a disciplined man are present.”

Men Ends Water Holy Intention Oil Interiors Buckets Thug Holy Water

Author:William Henry O'Connell

“In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.”

“In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.”

World Way Reality Stars Water Animal Quality Tree Stones Interiors Ineffable Iceberg Tip Of The Iceberg

Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.”

Water Fishes Sand Texas Interiors Bushmen

Book:America: A User's Guide

Source: America: A User's Guide

“When I drink a Glass of water, it's thick and crawling with life. My mouth leads to the interior of my body - a caldron of disease, germs, and perversions of biology. I don't exist individually. I'm made of millions of living creatures, eating each other, decomposing, eating each other.”

Made Body Water Millions Drink Creatures Disease Eating Mouths Glasses Biology Thick Interiors Germs Living Creatures Crawling Perversion

Author:Michael Gira