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sólo la vida existe. El espacio y el tiempo son formas suyas, son instrumentos mágicos del alma,
Poesía Completa
Jorge Luis Borges
Our happiness is built by attitude and intention. Attitude is not everything, but it’s almost everything. I visited the jazz great Jane Jarvis when she was old, crippled and living in a tiny apartment with a window facing a brick wall. I asked if she was happy and she replied, “I have everything I need to be happy right between my ears.”
The Joy of Being a Woman in Her 70s
Mary Pipher
In other words, only by engaging in ritual could worshippers break free from the mortal sphere and picture themselves to be part of the immortal realm of holy truth. Because these ceremonies represented a link with the distant human past, as well as with an imagined timeless sacred prehistory, they were considered to be ways of transcending death itself: Sacred reversible circular time could replace profane irreversible linear time.
Time Journeys
Paul Halpern
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