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2. “Sin is the blurring of truth which clouds the purity of our consciousness. In sin we lust after pleasures, not because they are truly desirable, but because the red light of our passions makes them appear desirable; we long for things not because they are great in themselves, but because our greed exaggerates them and makes them appear great.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Sin, Truth, Desire, Morality, Human Nature
17. “Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people – eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.” Hermann Hesse Sin, Grace, Buddha, Spiritual Duality, Universal Potential, Existential Cycle
27. “Of course, I didn't believe in life after death or the virgin birth or the Inquisition or the infallibility of that little monkey-faced Pope or anything, but I didn't have to let the priest see this, I could just concentrate on my sin, and he would help me repent.” Sylvia Plath Religious Skepticism, Sin Focus, Confession Reflection, Religion, Sin, Belief
29. “Now, Jonah’s Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless. In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.” Herman Melville Moral Double, Captain’s Cupidity, Virtue Barrier, Sin, Virtue, Captain
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2. “Sin is the blurring of truth which clouds the purity of our consciousness. In sin we lust after pleasures, not because they are truly desirable, but because the red light of our passions makes them appear desirable; we long for things not because they are great in themselves, but because our greed exaggerates them and makes them appear great.”
Rabindranath Tagore Sin, Truth, Desire, Morality, Human Nature
17. “Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people – eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.”
Hermann Hesse Sin, Grace, Buddha, Spiritual Duality, Universal Potential, Existential Cycle
27. “Of course, I didn't believe in life after death or the virgin birth or the Inquisition or the infallibility of that little monkey-faced Pope or anything, but I didn't have to let the priest see this, I could just concentrate on my sin, and he would help me repent.”
Sylvia Plath Religious Skepticism, Sin Focus, Confession Reflection, Religion, Sin, Belief
29. “Now, Jonah’s Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless. In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
Herman Melville Moral Double, Captain’s Cupidity, Virtue Barrier, Sin, Virtue, Captain
