Vervetish Quotes & Sayings

The way of Jesus is thus not a set of beliefs about Jesus. That people ever thought it was is strange, when we think about it - as if one entered new life by believing certain things to be true, or as if the only people who can be saved are those who know the word "Jesus". Thinking that way virtually amounts to salvation by syllables.
Rather, the way of Jesus is the way of death and resurrection - the path of transition and transformation from an old way of being to a new way of being. To use the language of incarnation that is so central to John, Jesus incarnates the way. Incarnation means embodiment. Jesus is what the way embodied in a human life looks like. — Marcus J. Borg

I change by not changing at all. — Pearl Jam

When you have performers, there's the uniqueness of live performance and what performers do in concerts. — Paul Lansky

A vervet, in other words, is very good at processing certain kinds of vervetish information, but not so good at processing other kinds of information. — Malcolm Gladwell

Anyone who has truly practiced a religion knows very well that it is [the set of regularly repeated actions that make up the cult] that stimulates the feelings of joy, inner peace, serenity, and enthusiasm that, for the faithful, stand as experimental proof of their beliefs. The cult is not merely a system of signs by which the faith is outwardly expressed; it is the sum total of means by which that faith is created and recreated periodically. Whether the cult consists of physical operations or mental ones, it is always the cult that is efficacious. — Emile Durkheim

He is thinking about his brain. It strikes him that it is odd to have to use the thing that may not be working to consider the thing that isn't working. — Gabrielle Zevin