"Life as it is. I've lived for over 40 years and I've seen... life as it is. Pain... Misery... Cruelty beyond belief. I've heard all the voices of God's noblest creature. Moans from bundles of filth in the streets. I've been a soldier and a slave. I've seen my comrades fall in battle or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I've held them at the last moment. These were men who saw life... as it is. Yet they died despairing. No glory. No brave last words. Only their eyes... filled with confusion. Questioning 'why?'. I do not think they were asking why they were dying... but why they had ever lived. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasure, where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all: to see life as it is and not as it should be."

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts,

and will always bear up against falsehood,

as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

"religion, therefore, as i now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. " /william james/

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pisitasa sain nädalavahetusel tegeleda religioonipsühholoogiaga.

teisipäeval on eksam. tunnistan ausalt, et praegu ei ole ma veel valmis väärikalt oma teadmisi näitama, aga teisipäeval ehk juba olen.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), Literature and Dogma

Pilt pärineb aadressilt http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

"mõtle, mis ehmatus,

kui jälgid üht

huvipakkuvat inimest kaugelt

binokliga,

ja nii vaadates avastad, et

ta jälgib sind – binokliga."

/neeme põder/

ma üritan nüüd uuesti kirjutama hakata.

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olen vahepeal veidi jälle lugenud.

pooleli on:

tommy hellsten "teadja"

ja

vladimir nabokov "kutse tapalavale".

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon

do I want to speak of the miracle of our Lord's divine transformation? not really, no. I don't want to talk about his divinity. I'd rather talk about his humanity. I mean, you know, how he lived his life, here on Earth. His kindness, his tolerance... listen, here's what I think. I think that we can't go around... measuring our goodness by what we don't do. by what we deny ourselves, what we resist, and who we exclude. I think... we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create... and who we include.

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tsitaat filmist "chocolat", mis meenub,

kui tuleb teha otsustusi, mis mõjutavad inimeste vabadust.

In the truest sense,

freedom cannot be bestowed;

it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt