CARDS 41-50

Card Nr. 41:

«Anyone who has experienced a complete absence of emotion, say for a year or two, knows that the universe is entirely made up of our feelings about it. In fact, it's just made up, period.»

Thomas Ligotti, "We Can Hide From Horror Only In The Heart of Horror"

Card Nr. 42:

«For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality.»

Mircea Eliade, "The Sacred and the Profane"


Card Nr. 43:

«Both inner and outer music can serve as psychopompos – as leader of the Soul – to realms more real than Earth.»

Joscelyn Godwin, "Harmonies of Heaven and Earth"


Card Nr. 44:

«I saw within Its depth how It conceives all things in a single volume bound by Love, of which the universe is the scattered leaves.»

Dante, "The Divine Comedy"


Card Nr. 45:

«If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.»

Hermann Hesse, "Demian"


Card Nr. 46:

«In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.»

Mircea Eliade, "Myths, Dreams and Mysteries"


Card Nr. 47:

«Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophesy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve.»

Plato, "Phaedo"


Card Nr. 48:

«One who abandons all desires and becomes free from longing and the feeling of 'I' and 'my' attains peace.»

Bhagavad Gita


Card Nr. 49:

«Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.»

Hermann Hesse, "Steppenwolf"


Card Nr. 50:

«The contacts of the senses with the sense objects give rise to the feelings of heat and cold, and pain and pleasure. They are transitory and impermanent. Therefore, (learn to) endure them, O Arjuna.»

Bhagavad Gita