Escena Lounge Quotes & Sayings

The gods come to us in the forms we recognize. — Deena Metzger

How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish? — Herman Melville

Without the reference points of pleasure and pain, people invent imaginary and abstract standards for ethics that are divorced from reality and generate vast amounts of unnecessary suffering. Pleasure is the only real ethical guide. It returns our conversations about ethics to the natural context where these conversations belong: the well-being of sentient beings. — Hiram Crespo

I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering. — Frederick Lenz

everything/ that ever was still is, somewhere — Tracy K. Smith

One reason Christians respond positively to a needs psychology is that it takes people's pain seriously. However, this perspective can actually make pain worse. It compounds pain by suggesting that not did the sins of others hurt deeply, but they also deprived you of something
a right, something you were owed
that is necessary for life. Being deeply hurt by others is hard enough, but when we believe that their sin was a near-lethal blow that damaged the core of our being, the hurt is intensified ... Therefore, one task in counseling is to begin to separate the real hurt from the pain that is amplified by our own lusts and longings. — Edward T. Welch

What's normal, she said. adults are all just weird in different ways. — Ellen Wittlinger

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth. — Cheyenne Jackson

No one wants to be ruined. We all want to be saved. — Erin Watt