Luck

“…closer to the secrets of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not play at dice”
Albert Einstein
“God may not play at dice, but She certainly knows how to count cards.”
Hanna Sharifi

Bully

“There is something to be learned from a rainstorm.
When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get
wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such
things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still
get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you
will not be perplexed, though you still get the same
soaking. This understanding extends to everything.”
–Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Tao

“Not that complete understanding is possible, the point is to get as near to it as we can, to know all that can be known, in order to stand, if only for a moment, at the edge of what can not.” Alan Judd 1991

Justice

“There will be justice,” said Brutha. “If there is no justice, there is nothing.”
-Terry Pratchett in Small Gods, page 322

The Law

“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble,… “the law is a ass—a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience.”
CHARLES DICKENS, Oliver Twist, chapter 51.

Bully

“Such a one (the narcissist – SV) is encased, is he not, in an armour – such an armour! The armour of the crusaders was nothing to it – an armour of arrogance, of pride, of complete self-esteem. This armour, it is in some ways a protection, the arrows, the everyday arrows of life glance off it. But there is this danger; Sometimes a man in armour might not even know he was being attacked. He will be slow to see, slow to hear – slower still to feel.”

“Dead Man’s Mirror” by Agatha Christie in “Hercule Poirot – The Complete Short Stories”, Great Britain, HarperCollins Publishers, 1999

Faith

Books don’t do anything. Humans do things, and they write books and
use books and misuse books. Some people read sacred books and are
inspired to be more charitable and kind. Others read the same books and
find justification for their hatred and fear.   –Phil Goldberg

Faith

Books don’t do anything. Humans do things, and they write books and
use books and misuse books. Some people read sacred books and are
inspired to be more charitable and kind. Others read the same books and
find justification for their hatred and fear.   –Phil Goldberg

Non-Conformity

“Blasphemy? How can I blaspheme? I’m a god!”
the god OM in Terry Prachett’s Small Gods. New York: HarperTorch, 1992. p.48

Power

Behind a large mountain

Beside a swift river

Within a dark forest,

Big bonfires are lit.

On benches around the fire,

These benches made of oak,

Men of renown on these benches seated

Famous men, beautiful ladies

Sing Kolada’s songs.

The Old Man in the center, seated

Grinds his knife of iron;

Boiling hot, boiling

With the goat nearby…

The time of sacrifice for the goat.

(From an ancient song)