:Like it says, single sentences – or two. All mine, as far as I know.
Seeds that might become essays, if there’s ever time.
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All things are full of ideas.
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Aphorism is the haiku of prose.
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Beauty is obvious, Ugliness requires a lecture.
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No technique of the mind can free you from your mind.
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“Post-modern” is just the mood when we realize the classic is gone, the “modern” doesn’t work, and nothing is left but the random.
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It is human attention – settled, sustained attention- that finds sophia in all things.
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Love is never unmasked.
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Ontology trumps autonomy; Design trumps theory; nature trumps wishing.
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Move through your day so that your night dreams are aphoristic, not surreal.
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Profile is the beginning of absence.
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Glossary: Myth: a story you feel part of.
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Writing in your journal is for “a future me who is assumed to have forgotten.”
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Typology is Ontology and Epistemology
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Christian silence, or hesychia, ponders the word of God and mourns the silence of God, at the same time.
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Expressive individualism is the source of the internal noise that makes zen, or “mindfulness”, attractive.
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The Design of the creator is exactly the Grace of the redeemer.
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The New Testament’s “world” is any setting where The Two Great Commandments – love of God and neighbor – are not spontaneously top of mind.
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The plural of person is an illusion.
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Poetry is when language becomes self-aware.
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Take the mood – and I mean mood – of John’s gospel, especially the last 2 chapters, and imagine a whole world that feels like that, and you have Narnia.
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The idea of a machine: once a procedure is understood, it should never need to be done again by human hands.
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The transmogrification of Socrates’ “dialectic” – conversation – into Aristotle’s syllogism is a great unnoticed deterioration.
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Alienation: your own wishes oppress you if they don’t become actions.
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Schizophrenia: when my performance-oriented self reads my faith as an accomplishment worth zero.
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Gentlemen: you might think your bed is attractive and perfectly functional, but new forms of bedclothes are yet to be invented, by women.
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Normal is the one thing I never wanted to be.
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Einstein’s “God” was interested in an elegant cosmos but not in people – oddly, just like Einstein.
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Hell: to see those you hurt as God sees them, with no possibility of forgiveness.
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Gnosticism is the feeling that in order be closer to God I need to know something more.
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Love, or die of loneliness.