06 September 2013
Beauty
Beauty is rarely soft
or conciliatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite
alarming." from Donna Tart's "Secret History"
04 September 2013
Mother Teresa
"Love begins at home. Everything depends on how we love each other.
Do not be afraid to love until it hurts, for this is how Jesus loved."
Let the stumbling block become the corner stone...
God
has done everything possible to make you the unique saint that our world
needs right now. The only thing that is in your way is probably
yourself.
02 September 2013
Good Theology
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic,
and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of
loving-kindness, this was good theology.
But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of
self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad
theology.
~ Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
~ Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
01 September 2013
If I've learned...
If I’ve learned anything from video games, it is that when you meet enemies, it means that you’re going in the right direction.
Dragons
Once They All Believed In Dragons
Once they all believed in dragons
When the world was fresh and young,
We were woven into legends,
Tales were told and songs were sung,
We were treated with obeisance,
We were honored, we were feared,
Then one day they stopped believing--
On that day, we disappeared.
Now they say our time is over,
Now they say we've lived our last,
Now we're treated with derision
Where once we ruled unsurpassed.
We must make them all remember,
In some way we must reveal
That our spirit lives forever--
We are dragons! We are real!
We were woven into legends,
Tales were told and songs were sung,
We were treated with obeisance,
We were honored, we were feared,
Then one day they stopped believing--
On that day, we disappeared.
Now they say our time is over,
Now they say we've lived our last,
Now we're treated with derision
Where once we ruled unsurpassed.
We must make them all remember,
In some way we must reveal
That our spirit lives forever--
We are dragons! We are real!
~ © Jack Prelutsky
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