Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new souls, drawn at random for some celestial cupboard where God keeps an unending supply?Or the same soul, immortal and eternal, refurbished and reused through endless lives, by that thrifty Housekeeper? In Her wisdom and benevolence She wipes off the memory slates, as part of the cleaning process, because if we could remember all the things we have experienced in earlier lives, we might object to risking it again.
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices. - Barbara Mertz
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
- Barbara Mertz
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them. - Barbara Mertz
Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice. - Barbara Mertz
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor. - Barbara Mertz
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents. - Barbara Mertz
That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful peo… - Barbara Mertz
I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful peo…
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and … - Barbara Mertz
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and …
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread. - Barbara Mertz
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm… - Barbara Mertz
Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm…
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