#isi

...I asked a friend if he felt ‘different’ when he was the only uncircumcised man in the shower and he said,‘Yes, gloriously different. ↗

— Kristen O'Hara

#foreskin #male-genital-mutilation #restoring #love

O grace abounding and allowing me to dare to fix my gaze on the Eternal Light, so deep my vision was consumed in it! I saw how it contains within its depths all things bound in a single book by love of which creation is the scattered leaves: how substance, accident, and their relation were fused in such a way that what I now describe is but a glimmer of that Light. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#theophany #love

I have a book of matches. I wrote it myself. The Spanish Inquisitors would love to burn it.
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— Jarod Kintz

#burning-books #funny #humor #matches #spanish-inquisitors

...I’m restoring my foreskin because I was born with one, and damn it, I’m going to die with one. ↗

— Kristen O'Hara

#foreskin #male-genital-mutilation #restoring #love

How beautiful can life be? We hardly dare imagine it. ↗

— Charles Eisenstein

#life #paradise #sacred-economics #social-change #social-vision

Entomologist Dr. Ovid Byron speaking to television journalist, Tina, who says, re. global warming, "Scientists of course are in disagreement about whether this is happening and whether humans have a role." He replies: "The Arctic is genuinely collapsing. Scientists used to call these things the canary in the mine. What they say now is, The canary is dead. We are at the top of Niagara Falls, Tina, in a canoe. There is an image for your viewers. We got here by drifting, but we cannot turn around for a lazy paddle back when you finally stop pissing around. We have arrived at the point of an audible roar. Does it strike you as a good time to debate the existence of the falls?" p.367 ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#climate-crisis #monarch-butterflies #change

Sometimes a "mistake" can end up being the best decision you ever make. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#destiny #everything-happens-for-a-reason #finding-your-way #journey-of-life #making-mistakes

One of the best gifts you can give to someone, is a wider perspective. It's also one of the best gifts you can receive. So if you have given someone a wider perspective, don't feel bad about it (about taking their blindfolds off and having to watch them cringe in the newfound sunlight); I know it's hard, but you're doing them a lasting favor. And a wider perspective can be difficult for you yourself to accept, in the beginning (during the time that you squint while the sunlight stings your own eyes), but later you'll find yourself coming back to it, even if you abandoned it as something worthless; you'll look for it, one day. Or it will grow on you. Perspective. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#giving-perspective #inspirational-quotes #perspective #perspective-is-a-gift #realizing-perspective