June 2011
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60 Small Ways to Improve Your Life in the Next 100... →
Just something interesting I stumbled upon.
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for...”
– Albert Einstein (via shneevon)
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In my theology class, Beauty, Brokenness and the...
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Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.
Stop talking, meditate in silence, blunt your sharpness, release your worries, harmonize your inner light, and become one with the dust.
From Tao Te Ching, Chapter 56 As translated by j.h.mcdonald, 1996
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Seven Blunders of the World
1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Commerce without morality
5. Science without humanity
6. Worship without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle
—Mahatma Ghandi
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Beauty, Sentimentality and the Arts
“There is a drive toward simplicity, reducing the complexities and ambiguities that evil brings in its wake. There is a tendency toward premature harmony: in some forms of theodicy, for example, (justifying God in the face of the existence of evil) the pains and losses of the world are presented as necessary darkness in order that the light of goodness might shine.”
—Jeremy S. Begbie,...
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Having been married for ten months now, I’ve...
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“The religious individual can never use direct communication.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the...
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“It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real...”
– The Real Work by Wendell Berry (via elnellis)
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“At it’s best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at...”
– Flannery O’Connor, “Novelist and Believer”
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In class this morning we are listening/discussing Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ. The following verse is part his musical interpretation of Sonata #5, “I thirst.” Reading this in light of the music composed by Haydn offers a vivid portrayal of some of the final moments of Christ.
I am poured out like water, And all My bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It has...
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Why the Hell Does Hell Still Matter? →
Essay by Kathryn Gin, assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University.
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“As for me I say that those who are tormented in hell are tormented by the invasion of love. What is there more bitter and violent than the pains of love? Those who feel they have sinned against love bear in themselves a damnation much heavier than the most dreaded punishments. The suffering with which sinning against love afflicts the heart is more keenly felt than any other torment. It is...
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Our Father—
Give us grace to be present to those moments, Lord, when your love is real enough to taste. Amen.
(via Common Prayer)
PRAYER OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
Disturb us, Lord, when We are too well pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true Because we have dreamed too little, When we arrived safely Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when With the abundance of things we possess We have lost our thirst For the waters of life; Having fallen in love with life, We have ceased to dream of eternity And in our...
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Wonderful thoughts on discipline, faith, and... →
“All spiritual problems are creative problems, and all creative problems are spiritual problems. Doubt, depression, lust, rage, greed: because the artist herself is the mechanism of creation, none of these things can be separated from an artist’s work when they’re present in the artist. And an artist’s failure to work is rarely mechanical—fingers that fail to curl around a pen or a brush—but...
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