#tho

Vertigo, it was thought at the time, could only be caused by a disease of the cerebellum. He observed this kind of patient for years and saw absolutely no symptoms of brain disease. ↗

— Robert Barany

#brain #caused #could #disease #kind

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane #myth

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#catholicism #christ #christianity #god #incarnation

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#new-thought

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#power #experience

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. ↗

— Joe Hill

#characters #loss-of-faith #love #women #faith

Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#both #career #complexities #different #dignity

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. ↗

— Andrew Thomson

#peacekeeping #thought-provoking #un #thought-provoking

Mythology is composed by poets out of their insights and realizations. Mythologies are not invented; they are found. You can no more tell us what your dream is going to be tonight than we can invent a myth. Myths come from the mystical region of essential experience. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#mythology #spirituality #dreams

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#forget #i #life #like #me