I think that I am here, on this earth, To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place Has meaning because it changes into memory. From "Consciousness" -- Czeslaw Milosz To whom do we tell what happened on the earth, for whom …
Random Snatches of April
"In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic." - G.K. Chesterton And here's a line from a poem from the same magazine I saw the Chesterton quote in, the fabulous The Sun. The poem is by Joe Wilkins, called "Manifesto". …
Ordinary Moments, Setting Sail
“To be conduits of change, we must be faithful stewards of the small, ordinary moments.” Glenn Packiam, Butterfly in Brazil. Found this at The Blind Beggar, in a post about Packiam's book, which is based on the notion of the now famous question, "“If a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, does it cause a …
Brendan Manning’s Trust
I love this quote. Speaking of his book Ruthless Trust, Brendan Manning says this: "The underlying premise of this book: the splendor of a human heart which trusts that is loved gives God more pleasure than Westminster Chapel, the Sistine Chapel, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Van Gogh's Sunflowers, the sight of ten thousand butterfiles in flight, …
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