Octavia E.Butler

Parable of the Sower

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  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted6 months ago
    We give lip service to acceptance, as though acceptance were enough. Then we go on to create super-people—super-parents, super-kings and queens, super-cops—to be our gods and to look after us—to stand between us and God. Yet God has been here all along, shaping us and being shaped by us in no particular way or in too many ways at once like an amoeba—or like a cancer. Chaos.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted6 months ago
    God can’t be resisted or stopped, but can be shaped and focused. This means God is not to be prayed to.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted6 months ago
    God exists to be shaped.

    God is Change.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted6 months ago
    She believed in a literal acceptance of everything in the Bible. Yet, when things got to be too much for her, she decided to trade pain for eternal pain in the hereafter.
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted6 months ago
    But what if all that is wrong? What if God is something else altogether?
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted6 months ago
    Is there a God? If there is, does he (she? it?) care about us?
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted6 months ago
    Is it a sin against God to be poor?
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted6 months ago
    So what is God? Just another name for whatever makes you feel special and protected?
  • Ian Romel Mendozahas quoted6 months ago
    All that you touch

    You Change.

    All that you Change

    Changes you.

    The only lasting truth

    Is Change.

    God Is Change.
  • Fernanda B.has quoted2 years ago
    PRODIGY IS, AT ITS essence, adaptability and persistent, positive obsession. Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment. Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism. Without positive obsession, there is nothing at all.

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