#Remembrance of God

[eyeoftheheart]

“The heart also needs to breathe, and the breath of the heart is none other than the remembrance of God.”

― Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart

Translation and Commentary of Imam al-Mawlud's Matharat al-Qulub. Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart:

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[procrastinationaccount]

Actually fucking crazy how Pyrrha had to feel her partner of over 10,000 years die, wake up alone in his body, square her shoulders and pretend to be him (not even for the last time), and then find the current most important person in the world to her, a woman who she'd only recently learned had not been killed in a way that mattered, and shoot her in the head.

[harrowedsoup]

Anyway Wake lives in my mind rent free and the fact that she’s the Mary to Gideon’s Jesus and John’s god is just!! So crazy to think about!! I’m not catholic enough to really appreciate it but I LOVE that about her and I wish I saw more people talk about it.

Wake, who had an incredibly messy relationship with two people at once, being cast as the Virgin Mary? Having God’s child only for them to be killed for the good of mankind?? Yet Wake’s hard refusal of anything related to motherhood because Gideon was never supposed to be anything other than a tool?? OG Gideon/Pyrrha being her own twisted version of Joseph????

[nobodymitskigabriel]

I love that Wake is the antithesis the self-sacrificing mother archetype. Because that's probably what I assumed in the first book, that this poor lost mom chose to direct power to her newborn's biocontainer knowing she would die in the process. Like no actually she just got murdered lmao and yeah she would've chosen to let Gideon live but that has nothing to do with a mystical maternal bond. Wake is loyal to her mission first and foremost, and her choosing to become pregnant and carry the baby to term was the sacrifice she took up for her mission. The feelings she has toward Gideon now, whatever those feelings even are, and the reason she works to save her in HtN has everything to do with the solidarity she must've felt with her, trapped on the Ninth as a ghost and watching her intended baby sacrifice grow up imprisoned and abused by her lifelong enemies.

[saiintofawe]

ignore that i left a couple of these blank. is this anything

[silverskye13]

In which there is a reminder.

[chrliekclly]

i sort of keep forgetting that more sunny is actually coming like the months on set r not just a fever dream

[renjunnipeikko]

my theory is that the rumored new dan heng isn’t five star, he’s a four star and you’ll get him in an event the same way we got hunt march. you get her using his path on his home planet and you’ll get him using her path on her home planet.

[queerprayers]

i want to say first of all that i fully respect a community's/denomination's/culture's right to have closed practices. i am not entitled to other people's traditions, and when i am a guest in a space i understand that everything is not automatically for me. and i know i do not have to understand to respect.

and also! when i go to a catholic church and can't receive communion i want to fall on the floor weeping. what do you mean i can't have him he's right there. sorry my baptism was the wrong kind of baptism. i'm hungry and you want me to become someone else before being fed.

[the-banks-of-lethe]

This is just a little thought that I had and wanted to get it out there.

TW - death + war mentions

I really like that poppies are a symbol of Hypnos. I understand that that's the case due to their sedative properties and being opiates - however I also like it because they're associated with death. Mainly their association with the lives and blood spilt from war. It makes me think that, not only are the poppies vibrant red colour representative of their blood, but also representative that they are now at rest. They fought so endlessly hard and are now getting the rest and comfort that they so desperately deserve.

I'm unsure about other countries, but being Australian, poppies are used for both ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day. I was taught in school that poppies were used during ANZAC Day ceremonies because the day after the Battle of Gallipoli, when people came to retrive / check the bodies of the deceased, they found hundreds of poppies blooming on the battle ground - that were not there the day before. We were taught that people then thought that the bright red colour of the poppies was due to the blood spilt that had seeped into the flowers (of course probably not true, but that's what was thought). And now, being devoted to Hypnos, looking back at the story I can add my own thoughts. The poppies blooming the day after the battle as a sign from Hypnos (and Thanatos) that they are at rest now, to reassure that they are safe.

I don't know, it's just a thought that came to me. It's made me appreciate the association of the poppy more.

[eyeoftheheart]

Meditation

First things must come first. When you awaken in the morning, meditate. If you don't, the whole world will crowd in to claim you, and you will forget God. At night, meditate before sleep claims you. I am so strongly established in the habit of meditation that even after I lie down to sleep at night, I find I am meditating. I can't sleep in the ordinary way. The habit of being with God comes first.

~ Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, "Man's Eternal Quest"

[wanderingmind867]

If Rick Riordan's version of Loki is like the Joker, then his version of Sigyn is like Harley Quinn. And they both embody the same problem to me. I can't like reading about abusive relationships. Joker being abusive to Harley makes him a horrible character, and it detracts from my ability to enjoy him. Similarly, Loki being abusive (or at least seemingly implied to be abusive) to Sigyn makes me hate him. But in both these cases, I don't hate the characters. I actually hate the writers.

Because the writers didn't have to make this about abuse. A villian can have a wife or a sidekick who actually cares about them. It doesn't have to always be about abusive power dynamics. And the fact that it always seems to end up that way really just annoys me. I prefer not to think of abuse on a day to day basis. I know it happens, but it's just an uncomfortable thing that makes bad writing seem worse. It's almost lazy to fall back on the cliche of having a villain be abusive. It's not fun.

I think Loki actually is a good father. He was locked to a rock, chained up with the entrails of his dead children! Venom dripped in his eyes! I imagine he could only have been grateful his wife even tried to lessen his pain. It really just makes me uncomfortable reading about how Loki abuses his partner. It doesn't feel right. It feels wrong. And everytime I see a villain who's actually super compelling and sympathetic doing something like this, I think it'll bring me a little bit of agony inside. Gods, I hate it.

PS: I still have 49 pages left as I write this, but I think I see what Rick's building to. Sigyn is going to betray Loki because he's abusive. Then Magnus and Alex are going to get together for their "happy ending" (based on teasing and bullying), and then this book is going to foreshadow Jason Grace's death. I remember they did that one. So all of this is really steaming me up, and I don't even see the point in reading anymore. But I only have 49 pages, so I guess I should just tough it out.

[glytchedmuffins]

Favorite Memosprite so far.

[luckkythirt33n]

"Well, yes, and that is why I'm going to have a word with the Almighty, and then the Almighty will fix it."

I asked questions once. I spoke to Her. I wondered and pondered. I used my voice that she gave to me, this mind of mine, the one she cast me out for. Do you not remember? How much trouble can I get into for simply asking a few questions, how much trouble can you get into for asking a few questions. There are no right people, not even you nor even I. Do you not see? Do you not remember?

"That won't happen."

Please tell me you remember.

"You're so clever."

You gave me the same advice once, just tangled up in different words. The warning you gave me amongst the stars. As above so below. I don't want you to fall, not like I did for being so stupid.

"How can somebody as clever as you be so stupid?"

Please don't fall. I am your mirror. I am your words. Please listen to yourself (please listen to me).

[existentialcrisisetcetera]

did you know that in ancient greece tattoos were typically used as marks of punishment and shame, typically inflicted on criminals and prisoners of war that were allowed to live?

did you know that kratos had deimos' birthmark tattooed onto his own body, when deimos' kidnapping by the gods is something he very clearly feels severe guilt over?