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Valus
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posted November 13, 2009 03:40 AM
 
However deeply we plumb the so-called "whys and wherefores" of material and abstract phenomena, mapping out the apparent roots and purposes of things, we never really arrive at any actual reasons. All we ever learn is "how". We ultimately perceive the intersection of various laws, and how they conspire to support particular phenomena, but without the intellectual and moral gratification we seek. What we discover is only that nothing, no argument, no design, could ever justify the rape, killing, or starvation of a child, or the countless other horrors we see every day under the sun, -- but that, despite this lack of purpose or reason, it is still possible to make our peace with God. The love of God is capable of dissolving all that the intellect cannot resolve. It's not so much that one's questions are answered by this love, but that, gradually, one's grip on the questions relaxes, and they cease to be an issue. Somehow, even the most righteous indignation is forgotten in the experience of God's love. But do not think for a moment that the true love of God is an opiate, that numbs us to the sufferings of our fellow sentient beings. Rather, it is that fullness of affectionate concern, which empowers and motivates us to share our love, and our entire selves, with the world.
Evil's like a black hole, or a black sun. Some people can go their whole lives with blinders on, but then something happens and they have to look. Somebody gets really sick, or hurt, or dies, and they have to look. It's staring them in the face and they have to look. And then there's the pull. It's romantic, morbid, and so now they want to look. They can't look away. It's got 'em. That's how I see it. Evil's real. It's there. And you can look. Just don't stare at it. For God's sake, don't stare at it. Stare at it too long and you'll go blind.
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Valus
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posted November 13, 2009 03:47 AM
No one ever was a great poet,
that applied himself much to anything else.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is,
by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. ... Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Whoever converses among old books
will be hard to please among the new.
Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, nourishment of mind by His truth, purifying of imagination by His beauty, opening of the heart to His love, and submission of will to His purpose. And all this gathered up in adoration is the greatest of human expressions of which we are capable.
~ William Temple,
Bishop of Manchester (1921–29),
Archbishop of York (1929–42), and
Archbishop of Canterbury (1942–44)
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Valus
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posted November 13, 2009 04:06 AM
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
~ John Henry Newman,
Roman Catholic Priest and Cardinal
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posted November 13, 2009 05:39 AM
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"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just go to the studio and work every day." -- Chuck Close
This one got an "ouch" out of me, but it used to be true for me. I worked at art because I loved it, not for anyone else, or for any other reason (except in one case, when I was working on something for a children's party - I loved it, and had a deadline to meet. The boy and his mother loved it, didn't use it fully, in the way it was supposed to be used, and framed it  ). It helped me to unwind, and kept me otherwise sane, under stressful circumstances. Art college always seems to get a poke, as not being serious educationally, but a lot of people don't realize that it is work, and that it can take a lot out of you. I'm getting this little room sorted out, with the help of my Dad and sister, but have that nagging "What's the point?" making itself known, ever so quietly, in the back of my mind (and, sometimes, not so quietly). I used to be so much better at "letting go, and letting God" ~ doing something just for fun, or the learning experience. IP: Logged |
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posted November 13, 2009 05:59 AM
"You shouldn't give up. Fight for yourself and who you are. You've got to go through the worst times in life to get the best." --PostsecretIP: Logged |
teasel
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posted November 13, 2009 06:32 AM
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posted November 18, 2009 04:55 PM
"Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong--sometimes it's letting go." ~Unknown (Once again from tinybuddha. That person finds some good quotes!) IP: Logged |
Valus
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posted November 18, 2009 07:30 PM
Effective action is always unjust.
~ Maya Angelou
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AcousticGod
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posted November 18, 2009 08:09 PM
I'm not sure I get that one.IP: Logged |
Valus
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posted November 23, 2009 10:50 AM
"The problem with speaking from your heart
arises when others answer with their brains."~ my friend Heather
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posted November 23, 2009 12:19 PM
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Valus
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posted November 24, 2009 05:58 AM
"Respect and modesty in presence of sleep! That is the first thing!
And to go out of the way of all who sleep badly and keep awake at night!"...A fool seemeth this wise man with his forty thoughts:
but I believe he knoweth well how to sleep. ...His wisdom is to keep awake in order to sleep well.
And verily, if life had no sense, and had I to choose nonsense,
this would be the most desirable nonsense for me also. Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else
when they sought teachers of virtue.
Good sleep they sought for themselves,
and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those belauded sages of the academic chairs,
wisdom was sleep without dreams:
they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue,
and not always so honourable: but their time is past.
And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon drop off. - Thus spake Zarathustra.
~ Nietzsche
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posted November 28, 2009 02:19 PM
"The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter." ~Unknown "Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance." ~John Petit-Senn "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become." ~Buddha "It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see." ~Henry David Thoreau "Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." ~Robert Brault "Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it." ~Unknown "Make finding the good in others a priority." ~Zig Ziglar IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted November 28, 2009 05:37 PM
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"Make finding the good in others a priority." ~Zig Ziglar
This one comes pretty easily to me, but lately, it's been tough. Ditto for this one: quote:
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." ~Robert Brault
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posted November 28, 2009 05:37 PM
“Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”~ Jenna, "Waitress" IP: Logged |
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posted December 01, 2009 06:23 PM
"We don't know, you can never be sure. But you take the plunge anyway. Sure is for people who don't love enough."
--Imagine Me and You------------------
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around -- and why his parents will always wave back." Journalist William D. Tammeus IP: Logged |
Valus
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posted December 02, 2009 09:31 PM
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posted December 04, 2009 09:37 AM
"Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive."
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Valus
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posted December 08, 2009 11:50 AM
"And he said unto me,
'My grace is sufficient for thee:
for my strength is perfected in weakness.'"
~ 2 Cor 12:9"Despair is that ground on which no green thing grows,
and where it is still possible to plant a new seed."
~ Valus
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posted December 08, 2009 11:51 AM
"Not the cross, but the flesh, is burdensome."~ Valus
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posted December 08, 2009 11:52 AM
"Despair is that ground on which no green thing grows,
and where it is still possible to plant a new seed."
~ Valus Hope can lurk in the darkest of places.  IP: Logged |
Valus
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posted December 08, 2009 11:59 AM
Only in the dark,
is there any call
for hope, or faith.
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AcousticGod
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posted December 08, 2009 11:30 PM
"You are fettered?" said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why.""I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard. I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is it's pattern strange to you?" Scrooge trembled more and more. "Or would you know," pursued the ghost, "The weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was full as heavy, and as long as this seven Christmas Eves ago. You have labored on it since. It is a ponderous chain." ~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol IP: Logged |
Valus
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posted December 09, 2009 04:45 PM
One of the fathers asked Abba Nistheros the Great, the friend of Abba Antony: "What good work should I be doing?" He said to him: "Are not all works equal? Scripture says that Abraham was hospitable, and God was with him. David was humble, and God was with him. Elias loved interior peace, and God was with him. So, do whatever you see that your soul desires according to God, and guard your heart."
~ The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
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posted December 11, 2009 09:45 AM
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
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