Gini

“Mary is an immensely important figure in Gnostic mythology, because she is Jesus’ consort and represents the Christian Goddess Sophia. Literalist Christians have completely erased Sophia from Christianity, but she was once as important a figure as Jesus”
― Peter Gandy, The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom

“What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

“Why should I go through all the trouble to make something if the outcome might be nothing?” The answer will usually come with a wicked trickster grin: “Because it’s fun, isn’t it?” Anyhow, what else are you going to do with your time here on earth—not make things? Not do interesting stuff? Not follow your love and your curiosity? There is always that alternative, after all.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“At the same time that Irenaeus is writing, the Pagan philosopher Celsus only knows of Christian gospels which are all attributed to women.33”
― Peter Gandy, The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom