Everything in me that conspires to break the unity and continuity of my life conspires to destroy me and consequently to destroy itself. Every indivi… - Miguel de Unamuno

The cure for suffering–which, as we have said, is the collision of consciousness with unconsciousness–is not to be submerged in unconsciousness, but to be raised to consciousness and to suffer more. The evil of suffering is cured by more suffering, by higher suffering. Do not take opium, but put salt and vinegar in the soul’s wound, for when you sleep and no longer feel the suffering, you are not. And to be, that is imperative. Do not then close your eyes to the agonizing Sphinx, but look her in the face and let her seize you in her mouth and crunch you with her hundred thousand poisonous teeth and swallow you. And when she has swallowed you, you will know the sweetness of the taste of suffering.

<<¡El cristianismo, al fin, y a pesar de la Magdalena, es religión de hombres -se decía Gertrudis-; masculinos el Padre, el Hijo y el Espíritu Santo...!>>. Pero ¿y la Madre? La religión de la Madre está en: <> y en pedir a su Hijo que provea de vino a una bodas, de vino que embriaga y alegra y hace olvidar penas, y para que el Hijo le diga: <<¿Qué tengo yo que ver contigo, mujer? Aún no ha venido mi hora>>

Over all civilizations there hovers the shadow of Ecclesiastes, with his admonition, "How dieth the wise man? — as the fool" (ii 16)