Tag: Prayer
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XIX The Sun
“fertility and bounty.”“We have new hope and belief”
“healing, especially on an emotional level”
“sense of safeness, protection and recovery.”
“new ways of resolving problems, new perspectives and fresh viewpoints”
“let yourself be lit from within”
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David Gerrold
I taught a class in writing once. I told them that a good story is
about pain and hope and the transition from one to the other. Most
important, it is about what we learn in the process of that
transition. The essential quality is hope. -
Four of Disks
“a stable level of material balance”
” asset security and material bounty.”
“you cannot either cling to this, nor take it for granted.”
“so on a day ruled by the Lord of Power, I ask you all to give something back to Planet Earth…”
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Seven of Swords
“too overwhelmed and doubtful to act decisively toward our problems”
“we do nothing. As a result, of course, things inevitably get worse.”
“poor view of ourselves.”
“ready to make unsuitable compromises in order to try to ease the pressure we experience.”
“commit ourselves to a course of action and then follow through.”
“The fact that we have acted will help us to break from of the Lord of Futility and to move on.”
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Umberto Eco, from Foucault’s Pendulum
Beware of faking: people will believe you. People believe those who sell lotions that make lost hair grow back. They sense instinctively that the salesman is putting together truths that don’t go together, that he’s not being logical, that he’s not speaking in good faith. But they’ve been told that God is mysterious, unfathomable, so to them incoherence is the closest thing to God. The farfetched is the closest thing to a miracle.
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Five of Wands
“quarrels, conflict and discord.”
“bitterness and argument for argument’s sake”
“unhappy with a working situation “
“troubled by the voice of our conscience,”
“restriction, limitation, frustration and annoyance”
David Given Schwarm 