The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.
Jessica FortunatoTag: truth sin myth rumor castus
Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.
Jean-Paul SartreTag: poetry writing writers myth
SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose BierceTag: humor funny myth definition fables revision legends revisionist
The pattern glitters with cruelty. The blue beads are colored with fish blood, the reds with powdered heart. The beads collect in borders of mercy. The yellows are dyed with the ocher of silence. There is no telling which twin will fall asleep first, allowing the other's colors to dominate, for how long. The design grows, the overlay deepens. The beaders have no other order at the heart of their being. Do you know that the beads are sewn onto the fabric of the earth with endless strands of human muscle, human sinew, human hair? We are as crucial to this making as other animals. No more and no less important than the deer.
Louise ErdrichTag: animals humanity nature fate myth
In a segment of the Sermon on the Mount, appearing in Matthew 5, Jesus is reported to have set six new teachings of his against six old Jewish teachings. The latter are introduced by such words as 'You have heard that it was said by them of old time' and the former by 'But I say unto you.'
Since both the teachings of old time and Jesus' new teachings are predicated on the same profoundly mistaken views of human nature and of the world in general, it is unimportant for us here today to compare and contrast these teachings or to determine which is better or worse in some way or other. The point is that whether better or worse, in this way or that, both are lodged in an egregiously mistaken mythology -- but in a mythology of enormous importance for us, because it is one of the wellsprings of Western culture.
Tag: humanity nature myth superstition importance mythology mistaken
He carried her over the Owl Creek mountain range without stopping,” he said, quietly this time. “He carried her until he reached one of the hot springs around what became Chapin, and then he walked into the water with her and held her there for three days. He had about given up when she opened her eyes and whispered his name.
Laura Anderson KurkTag: love myth dating native-american young-adult-fiction teen-fiction ya-fiction wyoming glass-girl henry-whitmire meg-kavanagh laura-anderson-kurk owl-creek-mountains shoshone
Many myths and religions have some kind of threat of retribution from their god or gods, and their doctrines warn of the dangers of doing various forbidden things. Why? Because memes involving danger are the ones we pay attention to! As oral traditions developed, our brains were set up to amplify the dangers and give them greater significance than the rest.
Richard BrodieTag: religion myth indoctrination retribution memes
For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through collective memory; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen, that must happen. Myth will become reality, however sceptical we might be.
Julian BarnesWe are meaning-seeking creatures. Dogs, as far as we know, do not agonise about the canine condition, worry about the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, or try to see their lives from a different perspective. But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value
Karen ArmstrongTag: dogs myth human-condition mythology
When we kissed, the skies had never appeared more heavenly, nor the seas a more brilliant shade of sapphire blue.
Jennifer SilverwoodTag: romance myth paranormal mythical-romance stay-quotes
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