All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.
Interpretation
Food is a divine gift that holds wonder and value.
This quote highlights the intrinsic value and miraculous nature of all food, suggesting that every type, whether common like eggs or luxurious like truffles, should be appreciated as a sacred offering from the divine. It prompts us to see the beauty and significance in the simplest of foods, reminding us that nourishment is not just sustenance, but a profound part of our existence that connects us to something greater.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a dinner gathering to express gratitude for the meal.
A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.
The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time
For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank.
Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet.
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
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