January 2011
10 posts
“Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to...”
– Isaiah 58:4-12
Jan 30th
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“Until we love God perfectly, everything in the world will be able to hurt us.”
– “Everything That Is, Is Holy,” New Seeds of Contemplation, Thomas Merton
Jan 23rd
septentrionalis: The “pro-abortion” and “anti-choice” pejoratives really put a nasty taste in my mouth. Sympathy and understanding go a long way in greasing the gears of dialog and compromise. Exactly. I feel this way about a lot of rhetoric—political, religious, etc.
Jan 23rd
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A few passages from Thomas Merton's New Seeds of...
“Hence a saint is capable of talking about the world without any explicit reference to God, in such a way that his statement gives greater glory to God and arouses a greater love for God than the observations of someone less holy, who has to strain himself to make an arbitrary connection between creatures and God through the medium of hackneyed analogies and metaphors that are so feeble that...
Jan 22nd
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At work, we’re sharing “life list” goals for this year. We’re going to keep up with one another’s progress and encourage one another along the way. My list: an excellent (flute) performance at my little brother’s wedding in May stay at the top of my linguistics class at MTSU translate the book of Esther find some worthwhile-seeming way to work toward solving...
Jan 15th
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It’ll be a good while before I get married, let alone have kids. I think about parenting anyway—I guess it follows from my reflection on how my parents raised me; it’s probably also because several of my friends and peers now have children or are expecting. Sometimes I’m terrified when I think about this; other times, not so much. I’d love to be a mother...
Jan 11th
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Crashingly Beautiful: Give it away →
crashinglybeautiful: Give it away “(A Tibetan Rinpoche) gently advised, “Dedicate. Before you write and after you write, make sure to give it away.” …For writing practice to be complete, we must give it away: the effort, the results, and identification with the results.  Much of the happiness that total absorption in an activity brings is nullified by the belief that it is ours – that we know...
Jan 7th
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“What in the world would we do without our libraries?”
– Katharine Hepburn (via librarianista)
Jan 4th
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via wordpainting) Yeah. Happy New Year, everyone : ) (Oh—and happy Tolkien’s birthday!)
Jan 3rd
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Jan 2nd