
“There's nothing more addictive than being a god.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“There's nothing more addictive than being a god.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“I must have God on my own terms, because God on somebody else’s terms is an idol.”
Source: "Quotes", The "Third Book" Notebooks of Northrop Frye, 1964–1972 (2002), p. 61
“The man who abides in the will of God wills nothing else than what God is, and what He wills.”
Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)
Context: The man who abides in the will of God wills nothing else than what God is, and what He wills. If he were ill he would not wish to be well. If he really abides in God's will, all pain is to him a joy, all complication, simple: yea, even the pains of hell would be a joy to him. He is free and gone out from himself, and from all that he receives, he must be free. If my eye is to discern colour, it must itself be free from all colour. The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.
Sermon IV : True Hearing
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Context: There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.
As Quoted in The Gerorgian Times in 2008 http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsid=12354.eng