The Spiritual Body
“Satan’s goal is to teach humans to regain the conscious control of their spirit bodies. Many do. Once this is achieved, these people can perceive the spirit world as well as the physical world. They can talk freely with demons, leave their physical bodies with their spirit bodies, and with full conscious awareness go [...]
Amphibians
"Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time." – C. S. Lewis, 1898-1963
"We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of [...]
Animals II
"All men who would surpass the other animals should do their utmost not to go through life unheralded like the brutes whom nature made to face the ground, obedient to their bellies." – Sallust, The War with Catiline, 40 B.C.
"Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends." [...]
Demons
"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon." – Dave Sim
"Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit… each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest." – Joseph Campbell
"Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will [...]
Inspiration
"Inspiration: a peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God." – Voltaire
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." – Jack London
Love
"The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral." – George Santayana, 1863-1952
"Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red [...]
Opposition
"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." – Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to [...]
Primitive
"If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it." – Stanley Garn
"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams." – Mary Ellen Kelly
Spirit
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." – Ralph Waldo [...]
Unconscious
"The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions." – Italo Calvino
"The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark, but also light, not only [...]
