“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
Source: The Dream of a Beast
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Irish filmmaker and fiction writer 1950Related quotes
Ibid., p. 77
The Book of Disquiet
Original: O que é doença é desejar com igual intensidade o que é preciso e o que ´desejável, e sofrer por não ser perfeito como se se sofresse por não ter pão. O mal romântico é este: é querer a lua como se houvesse maneira de a obter.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 407.
“Life was given to us a billion years ago. What have we done with it?”
Lucy (2014)
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.24
Context: This is the way how we have to understand the accounts of trials; we must not think that God desires to examine us and to try us in order to know what He did not know before. Far is this from Him; He is far above that which ignorant and foolish people imagine concerning Him, in the evil of their thoughts. Note this.
“We must be what we are and not what they want us to be.”
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
Context: We need to work in a job that we like and always be peaceful people, to do what we like. We must be what we are and not what they want us to be. To love what we love without obligation, without neurotic knots that we cannot untie. To desire what we want and to create what we are capable of making. To live with a certain prosperity, without wasting. But a prosperity for everyone, not a prosperity based on exploiting others. And, of course, it is necessary to become immortals and for this we have to live as if we were immortals thinking that we have a thousand years more to do what we want but without forgetting that in ten seconds we can die.
