I wanted to use the computer to erase myself.

Ryuichi Sakamoto, skmt (1999)

Until three powerful and loving gods Came forth from the host unto the land; On the shore they found Ask and Embla, Helpless and without a destiny.

They had no spirit, no mind, No blood, no voice, no healthy color; Óðinn gave them spirit, Hœnir gave them mind, Lóðurr gave them blood and healthy color.

I know an ash tree that stands, Yggdrasill by name, A towering tree, misted with white moisture; From it comes the dew that falls into the dales, Standing ever green beside the well of Urðr.

Völuspá (Prophecy of the Seeress / The Poetic Edda) Stanzas 17–19

Where is for this inside an outside? On what woe lays one such linen? What sky is reflected inside the landlocked lake of these open roses, these careless roses, look:

how loose they in looseness lie, as could no trembling hand upset them ever.

They can barely keep themselves together; many let themselves go, let their innerspaces overflow and flow over into the days, which fuller and fuller glut themselves shut,

until every part of summer a room becomes, a room in a dream.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Rosen-Innern (1908)

When he devours the dry wood, Agni cannot be restrained. He sharpens his glowing tongues like a hatchet… He spreads over the hills with his blazing light, swallowing the brushwood, glowing with fierce passion.

Rig Veda, Mandala 1, Hymn 140, Verses 2 & 4

1. Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
2. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.
3. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.
4. “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more.
5. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.
6. Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God.
7. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
8. “I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God.
9. But whoever disowns me before others will be disowned before the angels of God.
10. And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
11. “When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say,
12. for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”

Luke 12:1–12 (NIV)