Compared to the age of the universe, the Sun was actually a very young star. It had formed from the dust left behind after the death of the star before it.
Yet it was not worthy of worship. It was merely one celestial body among countless others in the vast universe.
One day, the Sun too would follow in the footsteps of other stars and become cosmic dust.
Heliocentrism had made people of the past question all their knowledge and order, but it had not driven them to despair.
Discovering one day that one's spouse was actually a complete stranger, whether he had cheated during the marriage or was a serial killer, was another matter entirely.
Love made people blind. The goddess of justice had not originally been blind, yet people had covered her eyes.
This darkness was actually well suited to meditation. As the yoga masters said, it was like having several people holding a meeting inside one's head, each with their own opinion.
Those "people" were the preprogrammed things that had been poured into one's mind by various means. One should not seize hold of any one of them without restraint.
Severus had told Pomona on the train that the Nazis had told Aryan girls that, in order to produce more "Aryan descendants," they should bear more children and establish so-called population farms.
He could choose not to have children, so she should stop urging him to marry another woman and have children.
You had to care about yourself, look after yourself, worry about yourself. Self-reflection was one way of getting to know yourself again.
During the French Revolution, the women gathered at the market demanded bread. They did not want the queen's jewelry boxes or clothes, the things supposedly needed when "women ought to treat themselves better."