The Worship And Following Of Dionysus Is, In Some Part, An Acceptance Of The Companionship Of Madwomen

The worship and following of Dionysus is, in some part, an acceptance of the companionship of madwomen -- girls and ladies and women who will love you, crush you, confuse you, enchant you, disrupt you, infect you, ravish you, adore you, scorn you, stand with you, betray you, worship you, and rip your heart out with their bare hands in a hallucinatory fury, for what ends up being no good reason.  Jump into the storm, and you will be blasted by all the light and fury and roaring and glory the storm has to offer, both pleasant and otherwise...

Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut, only to discover there was nothing in it to steal.

Ryokan returned and caught him. “You may have come a long way to visit me,” he told the prowler, “and you should...

Odeon of Herodes Atticus by ~piratefuriousteddy

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All manner of wild animals were associated with Dionysus, but the leopard is foremost among them...