#algs thoughts

This love, this mortal love, is of their own making,” Hermes muses, “the thing we did not intend, foresee or sanction. How then should it not fascinate us? . . . It is as if a fractious child had been handed a few timber shavings and a bucket of mud to keep him quiet only for him promptly to erect a cathedral. . . . Within the precincts of this consecrated house they afford each other sanctuary, excuse each other their failings, their sweats and smells, their lies and subterfuges, above all their ineradicable self-obsession. This is what baffles us, how they wriggled out of our grasp and somehow became free to forgive each other for all that they are not.

I say unto you that there are only two commandments that must concern all men and women at all times, and they are: Love God, your Creator in heaven, with all your heart and all your soul. Love your neighbor as yourself, knowing that all men and women are your neighbor and that in loving them, you are loving God. So many search the earth and do not realize that they gaze into the face of the divine every day, for the divine is in each of us. If all mankind lived by these two commandments at all times, there would be no war, no injustice, no suffering. These are not laws of diet or practice or sacrifice. They are laws of love.

How could you possibly find me attractive when you keep putting me down all of the time?

Stephanie Plum

"We could live forever, if we were willing to be stupid the whole time." "Surely you're not saying that God had to choose between long life and intelligence for human beings!" "It's there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees — knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying."