All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.
Interpretation
Food is a divine gift that holds wonder and value.
This quote highlights the intrinsic value and miraculous nature of all food, suggesting that every type, whether common like eggs or luxurious like truffles, should be appreciated as a sacred offering from the divine. It prompts us to see the beauty and significance in the simplest of foods, reminding us that nourishment is not just sustenance, but a profound part of our existence that connects us to something greater.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a dinner gathering to express gratitude for the meal.
A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.
Mythological symbols touch and exhilarate centers of life beyond the reach of vocabularies of reason and coercion.
Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - "with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other," says Billy Pilgrim.
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world.
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