A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available in other experiences.
-John Dewey
The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world, manifest in each of us, she can be known internally by every individual, in all her magnificent diversity.
Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
The Self, having in dreams enjoyed the pleasures of sense, gone hither and thither, experienced good and evil, hastens back to the state of waking from which he started. As a man passes from dream to wakefulness, so does he pass from this life to the next.