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…It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.
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….4. Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. …. From the poem “Sometimes”.
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“A poem should always have birds in it.” From her poem “Singapore”, from the collection “House Of Light” (1990).
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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” – Mary Oliver, from the poem “YES! NO!
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“What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.” – Mary Oliver, from the poem “I Looked Up”.
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When it’s over I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,…
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“Artists do not see color differently or better than other people…So, you can’t say that you don’t have any color sense or that you don’t know what colors work together…there are no groups of colors that are better than others…and while we are debunking myths here, let me also add that there is no such…
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“In real life, I tear up about one out of every four paintings, because I feel the image is composed poorly or the washes have gotten muddy.” – Mary Whyte, p. 83
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EDIT: LINK IS DEAD Delighted by Doctrine – Christianity Today Magazine As a capstone to his lifelong interest in the central texts of the Christian faith, [Jaroslav] Pelikan edited (with Valerie Hotchkiss) what could only be called a second magnum opus—Creeds and Confessions of Faith in the Christian Tradition, a four-volume critical edition with a…
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“An image, and the thing of which it is an image, are not separate; they are not two substances…An image is strictly an emanation….A thing’s image grows out of itself and grows upon itself.“ Meister Eckhart ? Quoted in Eco, Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages…p. 113
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If you would know and recognize the really sane and genuine seers of God, whom nothing can deceive or misinform, four and twenty signs can detect them… The twentieth sign: if any man fight them, they will let him prevail before accepting help of any sort but God’s… These are the signs of the true…
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“God does not seek his own. In all his acts, he is innocent and free and acts only out of true love. That is why the person who is united to God acts that way–he, too, will be innocent and free, whatever he does, and will act out of love and without asking why, solely…
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“I can be in error, but I cannot be a heretic, because the first belongs to the intellect, the second to the will.”
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“The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts…[he] ascribes all his failures to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of…
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Hard Times for the Gospel « Eating Words I wholeheartedly recommend Michael Spencer’s essay “Hard Times for the Gospel: A Rant.” Simply outstanding. A few choice lines: “The Gospel is simple. It’s free. It overturns us and our little party. It says things we don’t want religion to say, but that’s ok, because it’s not…
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The Boars Head Tavern » Blog Archive » Biblical Convictions….and keeping my nose out of someone else’s business I am like a lot of evangelicals in saying that I have very few questions about what the Bible teaches on the subject of sexuality. But I also have very few questions on the subject of how…
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Oh Fathers and Teachers, I claim that analysis is not art. Philosophy is not art. Politics is not art. Destruction is not art. Framing is not art. Finding is not art. Thinking is not art. Randomness is not art. Pathology is not art. Everything that a fool does easily is not art. Fathers and Teachers,…
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The Cybernetics of Liberalism Every single one of the liberal heresies justifies sexual libertinism. Even scholarly issues like the dating of the four Gospels has a sexual payoff, as you will find if you talk long enough with liberal theologians. If the Gospels are not eyewitness accounts of Christ’s actual words, but the “consensus” of…
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Moral action is metaphysical identity.
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In the movie “Searching for Bobby Fischer”, the child chess prodigy Josh has two teachers: the Fun Teacher and the Real Teacher. (Am I revealing my bias yet?) The Fun Teacher is the guy in the park who makes chess fast, freewheeling, aggressive, carefree – fun. Under him, Josh gets to exploit his natural…
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From the Fearsome Pirate: Simple advice on how preaching might not suck. Simple advice on how a church might not suck.
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The Typographic Mind: “…the capacity to comprehend lengthy and complex sentences aurally.” The Peek-A-Boo World: The invention of the telegraph made possible, for the first time, people to get lots of information every day which they need do nothing about. This is Postman’s central, most useful concept, what he calls the “information-action ratio”. The information…
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Gratitude … goes beyond the “mine” and “thine” and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude…
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It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. (O.H.Mowrer, quoted by Allen in GTD, 85)
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I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. Oliver Wendell Holmes, quoted in GTD, 141
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The Nazis hung him this time, again, just like the first time I read his story. I was so-o-o longing for a different end. Two weeks before Hitler killed himself, three weeks before the end of the war, that paperhanger SOB had to have all remaining conspirators hung in spite, even though his fate was…
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The finite cannot touch the finite except through the medium of the infinite. Love, or die of loneliness.
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Why ought monkeys acknowledge they are monkeys? « Once More With Feeling I don’t think I’ve ever seen any other reaction from an atheist (bear in mind my experience is limited) who ever responded to the quesiton, no matter how gently put, of an objective basis for ethical judgments, without getting angry. This is empirically…
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The Chronicle: 11/17/2006: The Social Responsibility in Teaching Sociobiology The logic in this discussion is so bad as to be maddening. If the gene is selfish, and there is no ethic other than what “emerges” from our biological selves, how can anybody else tell me what I OUGHT to do? Why should I not kill…
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“More vividly than ever before he realized that art has two constant, two unending concerns: it always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St. John.” (from the scene where Zhivago is walking behind the funeral procession of his friend)
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“…Here was a book that achieved the kind of dialogue to which he had aspired ever since reading I and Thou: not reformulated thought, but the “spontaneous elucidation of what we do not yet know” ; not thought about what is already known, but “what will come to be known in our saying it to…
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“A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken in the light of a story.” from “The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage”, by Paul Elie. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, NY. 2013. page x. Simple, yet I had never seen it.
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“The gods in their graciousness give us an occasional first line for nothing; but it is for us to fashion the second, which must chime with the first and not be unworthy of its supernatural elder.” -Paul Valery: The Art of Poetry, p.18
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“On quiet autumn nights, in holy hours of silence, when a tear of rapture sparkles on my eyelashes, I will secretly begin to write down for you schemata and pitiful fragments of those questions which we so much discussed together. You know in advance what I will write. You know that my writing will not…
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Peter Leithart: “Wedding Sermon” is just magnificent: ….As the Spirit joins Father and Son, so He joins fathers and sons across the gap of generations. No generation can be healthy if it is dominated by one spirit. A generation dominated by the spirit of sons breaks from the past in revolution, and a generation that…
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Leithart.com | Liturgical Thinking The destruction of time meant the destruction of shame and modesty: “Shame is the soul’s garment against arbitrary and untimely knowledge: because timing is the condition in which alone the eternal may be revealed.” It takes time for a bride to know her lover, and modesty is the veil over that…
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Mark Van Doren’s students remember him, and their comments taken together are the job description of a teacher: ************************* …the reason Van Doren exerted such a strong force on students, especially those with big literary and intellectual ambitions, was that he had no agenda, no outsized ego, and he treated them as grown-ups. He wanted…
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Nobody has any business to use the word “progress” unless he has a definite creed and a cast-iron code of morals. Nobody can be progressive without being doctrinal; I might almost say that nobody can be progressive without being infallible — at any rate, without believing in some infallibility. For progress by its very name…
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