“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
— Carl Jung
Tag: Religion
The Devil
“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (via juliana marques)
The Foolishness of God
“We desperately need the foolishness of God.”
— Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet (via Csaba Osvath)
God Gone Missing
“Imagine three days of God
gone missing. Now,
imagine my lifetime of it.”
— Airea D. Matthews, from “Sexton Texts a Backslider after Breaking Lent,” Simulacra
Resurrection
Easter by Marie Howe
Two of the fingers on his right hand
had been broken
so when he poured back into that hand it surprised
him — it hurt him at first.
And the whole body was too small. Imagine
the sky trying to fit into a tunnel carved into a hill.
He came into it two ways:
From the outside, as we step into a pair of pants.
And from the center — suddenly all at once.
Then he felt himself awake in the dark alone.
Gods and Men
“There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
I Feel No Spiritual Void
“I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so.”
― Isaac Asimov, I, Asimov: A Memoir
So-Called Religions
A religion may be discerned in capitalism—that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers.”
— Walter Benjamin, “Capitalism as Religion”
Woe to Those
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”
— Isaiah 5:20 (via @middlechurch)
The Quintessential Figure
Eve not only deserves punishment but becomes the quintessential figure of unruly, transgressive nature, a nature that neither woman nor man can altogether contain and both would prefer to repudiate.”
— Lisa Appignanesi, Introduction to The Madwoman in the Attic by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Lisa Marie Blair 