By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.
To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
And as men believe, so their world goes.” – Merlin
A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go….
God is one and there is but one God — all else is but the way the ignorant seek to put Gods into a form they can understand…
My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know.
…perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing is the light.
Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.
Magic is a matter of focusing the disciplined will. But sometimes the will must be abandoned. The secret lies in knowing when to exercise control, and when to let go.
Beware what you speak,’ said the Merlin very softly, ‘for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.
To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom,” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.
And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference…
Men are by nature wanderers…Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before.
She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment.
… but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones
And indeed there is little opportunity for the old and poor to sin, except to doubt God’s goodness, and if God cannot understand why we doubt that, then he is not as wise as his priests think, heh heh heh . . .
And if the earth Gods wreak vengeance on the sinless and the sinful alike, then this further destruction cannot be punishment for sins, but is in the way of all nature.
And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.
Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But – they are. Life consists of opposites in balance.
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
It has never been and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination.
It has never been and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination.
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.