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The monks of the time told [Princess Wisdom Moon (Tara)] that she should pray to be reborn in a man’s body so that she might benefit beings and the Dharma and attain enlightenment more quickly. However, this did not sit well with the princess.

Psychonauts, or inner space travelers of old, including Shakyamuni Buddha, saw the value of using the mind to transform the mind…

You know, you’re not pretty enough to get away with being as mean as you are. And you’re really pretty.

I think… I think you find the people who believe in you as you are, and fuck the rest of them.

I think... I think you find the people who believe in you as you are, and fuck the rest of them.

‘Hayden looks like Velma. But a man.’

[…] Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Of these, science has engaged Buddhism the most. Like science, Buddhism encourages people to take nothing on faith alone and does not require a belief in God.

Tara…arose from the heart (or teardrop) of [Guanyin]… In this myth, she is referred to as the daughter of [Guanyin].

Tara is called a bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism (Great Vehicle) and a buddha in Vajrayana Buddhism (Diamond Vehicle) where women tend to have a more elevated status than in earlier forms of Buddhism.

“We love that,” I say. “‘Woke Conspiracy Theorist.’”

”None of it? You don’t believe in aliens or Bigfoot or ghosts or—I…I don’t know…the Denver airport?”

Eric got arrested for public indecency at the Denny’s down the road, so we won’t be moving forward with his show.

We need to actively look for women’s stories and put them back into the historical narrative.

The Green Book cuts off abruptly, shortly after this[…] The last words are: The dark nymph, Alanna, came, and she turned the pool of water into a pool of fire.

There was something viscerally satisfying about chucking the dolls into the trash compactor. Is that wrong? Probably that’s wrong.

Oh, don’t lie to yourself, Mouse. You could walk away from Kilroy and the rest without feeling too much of a qualm, but it’s killing you to think there’s a weird book hidden somewhere and you might not get to read it.

It was a simpler time. Because I personally had less memories and so less to superimpose upon the world.

It was physical, this knowledge, as a strong knowing always is. It had more to do with an ache in her bones than a notion in her head.

I asked my phone if it was connected to the internet and it told me that it had a very close relationship with the internet. I attempted to pull up a web page and it informed me that it was not that kind of relationship.

No wonder there were Gnostic sects that had believed the Lord in these texts was in fact the Devil […] that it was he we worshipped when we worshipped God.

A development in Greek thought […] prized the capacity for individual reason over the hypocrisy of traditions and customs, even and especially if they were commonplace.

“It’s a strange form for [christos] to take,” Kevin said. “As a girl. That’s going to encounter resistance… made David here pissed as hell.”

Catholics when God is female:

Normally, game designers tried to display as much information as possible to increase the sense of realism. But Three Body’s designers worked to compress the information content to disguise a more complex reality, just like that seemingly empty photograph of the sky.

For Jung, the divine and the unconscious mind were inextricable from each other, a concept he found present in the [I Ching].

Yoga is a Sanskrit word meaning “to join” or “to unite.” The whole of the path is to uncover that self-existing union with reality.

She appears to have been an educated woman, insofar as a graduate of any North American college of the time may be said to have been educated. (Laughter, some groans.) - International Historical Association Convention, 2195

The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.