#origin

There’s a Greek legend—no, it’s in something Plato wrote—about how true lovers are really two halves of the same person. It says that people wander around searching for their other half, and when they find him or her, they are finally whole and perfect. The thing that gets me is that the story says that originally all people were really pairs of people, joined back to back, and that some of the pairs were man and man, some woman and woman, and others man and woman. What happened was that all of these double people went to war with the gods, and the gods, to punish them, split them all in two. That’s why some lovers are heterosexual and some are homosexual, female and female, or male and male. ↗

— Nancy Garden

#lesbian #lgbt #mythology #originality

Long dismissed as children's stories or 'myths' by Westerners, Australian Aboriginal stories have only recently begun to be taken seriously for what they are: the longest continuous record of historic events and spirituality in the world. ↗

— Karl-Erik Sveiby

#environment #non-fiction #historical-fiction

There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have understood: that for every genuine existence, for every real manifestation and occurrence, there are are ten thousand falsities. Before you meet what or who is genuine, you will first have met, or known of, what is fake; and ten thousand times so! There is no need to feel disappointments, any number below ten thousand deceptions renders you a lucky person! And you ask why is there a need for this to happen? Well, if you have not known what is false first, there is no way to understand what then comes which is truth. What is lesser is so afraid of what is genuine, that it finds it necessary to imitate and duplicate that imitation ten thousand times over, for fear that you will finally meet what is real. The more important that one existence is, the more imitations there are in the world. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#disappointments #fake #false #genuine #imitations

Never allow anyone to define you! Just be you! ↗

— Chrys Phillips

#be-yourself #celebrity-quote #chrys-phillips #chrys-phillips-quote #just-be-you

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. ↗

— John Acton

#greek #moves #nature #nothing #origin

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#because #frustration #get #hurt #i

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#hypothetical #life #origin #referred #rna

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#origin #said #spirit #true

I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#find #i #intelligible #interest #liking

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly. ↗

— Dario Argento

#getting #know #original #out #say