I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that."
[Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe, Locus Magazine, September 1998]
Tags: world history humanity society universe mankind individuals continuum continuity
Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
Sheri S. TepperTags: intelligence reality opinions ignorance blindness narrow-mindedness reality-check
I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay.
Sheri S. TepperTags: religion doctrine orthodoxy narrow-mindedness contradictions prophecies transcription
Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.
Sheri S. TepperTags: life fate religion punishment chance curse superstition destiny fortune luck misfortune pettiness divine-intervention
One listened and one remembered. I listened as best I could, but there were no hooks in my head to hang much of it on.
Sheri S. TepperIt's not what your reproductive organs do that counts, it's what your mind intends before that moment.
Sheri S. TepperWith us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.
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