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“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Even if I now saw you
only once,
I would long for you
through worlds,
worlds.”
― The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
only once,
I would long for you
through worlds,
worlds.”
― The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"
"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.
"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"
"A pit full of fire."
"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"
"No, sir."
"What must you do to avoid it?"
I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”
― Jane Eyre
"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.
"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"
"A pit full of fire."
"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"
"No, sir."
"What must you do to avoid it?"
I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”
― Jane Eyre
“[written 2,600 years ago]
Another Sama
After twenty-five years on the Path,
I'd experienced almost everything--
except peace.
When I was young,
my mother told me
that I would find true happiness
only in marriage.
Remembering her words all those years
later,
something in me began to tremble.
I gave myself to the trembling--
and it showed me
all the pain
this little heart
had ever known.
And how countless lives of searching
had brought me
at last
to the present moment,
which I happily married.
Can you imagine?
We've been living together
ever since,
without
a single
argument.”
― The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns
Another Sama
After twenty-five years on the Path,
I'd experienced almost everything--
except peace.
When I was young,
my mother told me
that I would find true happiness
only in marriage.
Remembering her words all those years
later,
something in me began to tremble.
I gave myself to the trembling--
and it showed me
all the pain
this little heart
had ever known.
And how countless lives of searching
had brought me
at last
to the present moment,
which I happily married.
Can you imagine?
We've been living together
ever since,
without
a single
argument.”
― The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns
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