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Category: Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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.

Work, Road, Destination

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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.

ignorance, knowledge, wisdom

Marion Zimmer Bradley

They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge?…know it is the understanding graven in the heart that makes men wise.

heart, knowledge, understanding, wisdom

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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.

arthurian, fate, merlin

Marion Zimmer Bradley

And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; one of the Druids, giving instruction in the secret wisdom to the young priestesses, had said, If you would have the message of the Gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats, again and again; for this is the message given you by the Gods, the karmic lesson you must learn for this incarnation. It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit.

god, karma, life, meaning

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

And the truth is only that we grow and die and wither even as this grass here.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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.

gods, paganism, philosophy

Marion Zimmer Bradley

But even the longest day wears to sunset.

arthurian, avalon, comfort, inspirational, king-arthur, marion-zimmer-bradley, nimue, sunset, the-mists-of-avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley

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 . . .