#owl

To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#magic #magick #occult #occultism #spiritual

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#knowledge #death

He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#rowling #death

Believe me, I ain't pretty enough to be called an Angel. -The Reaper ↗

— Cypher Lx

#salt-bowl-death #the-reaper #death

You are unwilling to pay that price, even knowing that the consolation prize is not only to learn every philosophy that has ever existed, but ones which have not yet been conceived? Even knowing that if you do not accept, you will soon cease to learn anything at all?" Raimund tilted his head, still staring into my eyes, and I knew he must see the tears filling them, though I held them back from falling. "My friend," he whispered, "do you really believe your own words, I wonder? Your pain makes me think you know that death is not the end of learning, but only the beginning. ↗

— Krisi Keley

#knowledge #death

One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#knowledge #loved-ones #death

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#average #coming #economists #health #income

..bright eyes and subtle variations of blue... ↗

— Owl City

#owl-city #rainbow #song-lyrics #veins #dreams

Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today. ↗

— Idries Shah

#big-picture #lack-of-knowledge #lack-of-perspective #rigidity #design

Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#ignorance #knowledge #life #life