Michelle Pellizzon
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Michelle Pellizzon
Well, I heard they invented coffee so Sufi poets could stay awake all night having mystical experiences and writing poetry and now we just drink it to get through the day.
Sarah Ruhl • Becky Nurse of Salem
Novelist and mystic Romaine Rolland says, “There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.”
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
For humans to have been shaped long ago to treat the sacred in its appropriate sacred manner, the sacred must have been around long ago, and important enough then to shape our natures. That is, if the sacred is real, it must be big and ancient.
Truly Sacred Things
If we don't learn to mythologize our lives, inevitably we will pathologize them.
Richard Rohr
Myths are an essential part of this ‘making of humans’ — they contextualise our existence and give us psychological coherence.
Alexander Beiner • Traversing the Underworld: What Myth can Teach us During the Pandemic
You have to create your own mythology if the world isn’t supplying it.