#la

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about. ↗

— John Green

#christianity #islam #religion #suffering #universal

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#any #begins #conference #death #defend

Culture is religion externalized. ↗

— Douglas W. Phillips

#douglas #phillips #religion #religion

Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I'm just some idiot actor having a bhaenchud nightmare, what the fuck do I know, yaar, what to tell you, help. Help. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#islam #muhammad #muslim #religion #religion

And the pebbles fight each other as rocks/And my father bends among them/Two hands outstretching up to me/Not that I can hear. ↗

— Joe Strummer

#dreams #poem #art

We die well when we die with purpose fulfilled". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#fulfilling-purpose #purpose-in-life #r-alan-woods #death

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a truer, more judicious, more intelligent understanding of the world. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#art #criticism #desire #films #gravity

If you stay on this path as long as I have, you’ll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil’s waiting to collect his pound of flesh. ↗

— Jay Grewal

#enlightenment #motivational #religion #spirituality #motivational

Landscapes we must owe something to the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#nature #art

It had been a long night already, and now here I was, locked in another fight to the death. Sometimes it just didn't pay to leave the house. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#elemental-assassin #gin-blanco #death