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There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#life #mortality #wealth #death

Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rough pine bark she felt next to her skin, in the beat of her heart and the life of all her senses, and in the hunger she was feeling now, and in the presence of her sweet-voiced bluethroat dæmon, and in the earth below her and the lives of every creature, plant and animal both; and she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#joy #life #ruta-skadi #death

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#areas #defence #drive #great #hardware

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#life #moving-on #death

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#artistic #basically #come #creative #decent

If we are seeking to serve the God of truth then we should really welcome truth from whatever source it comes. We shouldn’t fear the truth. Some of it will be from science, obviously, but by no means all of it. It will sometimes by perplexing, how this bit of truth relates to that bit of truth; we know that within science itself often enough and we find it outside of science as well. The crucial thing is to be honest." http://www.faithinterface.com.au/scie... ↗

— John Polkinghorne F.R.S. K.B.E.

#science #faith

I have never been one for the over-the-top. ↗

— Rick Allen

#i #never #over-the-top

So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we’re mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We’re not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing ourselves before our food and entering into the still, slow space where eating is done for eating’s sake and not something we do simply to get to the next thing on our list. ↗

— Mary DeTurris Poust

#faith #food #mindful-eating #mindfulness #present-moment

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#before #coming #conscience #far #had

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#forward #freedom #justice #never #our