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Well, I am reassured that you all can read this :) I have at least one friend who rated Genuis Level. What does your blog rate?
A Franciscan blessing:
“May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.”
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We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. -- David Brower
He had the rare quality of not only loving but respecting childhood -- its innocence, its keen sense of justice, its passionate and yet sensitive affections. -Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, novelist and poet (1826-1887)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowfoot quote
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. - Elie Wiesel
A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. - John Neal
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. Samuel Johnson
"I fully realize that I've not succeeded at answering all your questions. Indeed I feel that I've not answered any of them completely. The answers I have found only work to raise a whole new set of questions which only lead to more questions - some of which we weren't even aware were problems in the first place. To sum up -- in some ways I feel that we are as confused as ever, but I do believe that we are confused on a higher level and about more important things." Unknown
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker
To be a Christian means gradually, Sunday after Sunday, to be subsumed into another story, a different account of where we have come from and where we are going, a story that is called “gospel.” You are properly called a “Christian” when it’s obvious that the story told in Scripture is your story above all other stories that the world tries to impose upon you and the God who is rendered in Scripture is the God who has got you. William H. Willimon
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. - Rachel Carson
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. Stanley Horowitz
“In times of change the learners will inherit the earth while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” --Eric Hoffer
“The pulpit calls those who are appointed to it like the sea calls its sailor; and like the sea, it batters and bruises, and it does not rest….To preach, to really preach, is to die naked a little at a time, and to know that each time you do it, that you must do it again.” Bruce Thielmann
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. Antoine de Rivarol, epigrammatist (1753-1801)
"The poet's job is to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, in such a beautiful way that people cannot live without it, to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name. The poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things: to be an advocate for the beauty of language, the subtleties of language." Jane Kenyon, poet, A Hundred White Daffodils (Greywolf Publishing)
Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used. -Elbert Hubbard, author, editor, printer (1856-1915)
"Violence is labyrinthine. It turns back on itself in serpentine ways. The paths that seem to exist from its madness so often lead deeper into its maze. Violence is literally a-mazing. The traditional way of resisting evil causes the contagion of evil to spread, perpetrated by those who are most determined to eradicate it. How to resist evil in ways that prevent its spread is now history's most fundamental dilemma." -- Gil Baillie in Violence Unveiled
"What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. We should recognize that while we have extravagantly subsidized the means of war, we have almost totally neglected the ways of peaceableness. We have, for example, several national military academies, but not one peace academy. We have ignored the teachings and the examples of Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other peaceable leaders. And here we have an inescapable duty to notice also that war is profitable, whereas the means of peaceableness, being cheap or free, make no money." Wendell Berry
"In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints." Frederick Buechner
"A genuine public life begins with the premise that victories for the whole are greater than victories for any of its parts... The foundation of public life is the tenacious faith that we are in this thing together and can find ways for everyone to win." Parker Palmer in The Company of Strangers
"Community building is more an orientation than a technique, more an outlook than an activity. A community's own strengths, whether they are found in churches, block clubs, local leadership, or its problem-solving abilities, are central. Community building is based on the belief that urban neighbors and neighborhood institutions can and must be primary actors in efforts to solve the problems of their neighborhoods." - Lizbeth Schorr in Common Purpose
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." Victor Hugo
Genius is eternal patience. -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564)
“What we set about when we began following Jesus was to become radically Christian persons linked in Christian compassion to a world of great evil… We really can’t find anything better to declare than ‘the peace of God that surpasses all understanding.’ His shalom can fill those who trust in him with the spiritual resources which will enable them to wage war on war, and provide them with weapons which by their peaceableness partakes of the nature of the kingdom for whose coming they both pray and work.” – Timothy L. Smith
"It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that can be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection, No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the church's mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything. This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities. We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. That enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results. But that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are the workers, not the master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own. Amen." Archbishop Oscar Romero
The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. -John Milton (1608-1674) [Paradise Lost]
A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese Proverb
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine — which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes. Wendell Berry
If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God's power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." Carl Jung
“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.” Joseph Campbell
"For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written - heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world." Angela Carter
Well, I am reassured that you all can read this :) I have at least one friend who rated Genuis Level. What does your blog rate?
A Franciscan blessing:
“May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.”
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. -- David Brower
He had the rare quality of not only loving but respecting childhood -- its innocence, its keen sense of justice, its passionate and yet sensitive affections. -Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, novelist and poet (1826-1887)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowfoot quote
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. - Elie Wiesel
A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. - John Neal
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords. Samuel Johnson
"I fully realize that I've not succeeded at answering all your questions. Indeed I feel that I've not answered any of them completely. The answers I have found only work to raise a whole new set of questions which only lead to more questions - some of which we weren't even aware were problems in the first place. To sum up -- in some ways I feel that we are as confused as ever, but I do believe that we are confused on a higher level and about more important things." Unknown
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker
To be a Christian means gradually, Sunday after Sunday, to be subsumed into another story, a different account of where we have come from and where we are going, a story that is called “gospel.” You are properly called a “Christian” when it’s obvious that the story told in Scripture is your story above all other stories that the world tries to impose upon you and the God who is rendered in Scripture is the God who has got you. William H. Willimon
In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. - Rachel Carson
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. Stanley Horowitz
“In times of change the learners will inherit the earth while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” --Eric Hoffer
“The pulpit calls those who are appointed to it like the sea calls its sailor; and like the sea, it batters and bruises, and it does not rest….To preach, to really preach, is to die naked a little at a time, and to know that each time you do it, that you must do it again.” Bruce Thielmann
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. Antoine de Rivarol, epigrammatist (1753-1801)
"The poet's job is to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, in such a beautiful way that people cannot live without it, to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to name. The poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things: to be an advocate for the beauty of language, the subtleties of language." Jane Kenyon, poet, A Hundred White Daffodils (Greywolf Publishing)
Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used. -Elbert Hubbard, author, editor, printer (1856-1915)
"Violence is labyrinthine. It turns back on itself in serpentine ways. The paths that seem to exist from its madness so often lead deeper into its maze. Violence is literally a-mazing. The traditional way of resisting evil causes the contagion of evil to spread, perpetrated by those who are most determined to eradicate it. How to resist evil in ways that prevent its spread is now history's most fundamental dilemma." -- Gil Baillie in Violence Unveiled
"What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. We should recognize that while we have extravagantly subsidized the means of war, we have almost totally neglected the ways of peaceableness. We have, for example, several national military academies, but not one peace academy. We have ignored the teachings and the examples of Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other peaceable leaders. And here we have an inescapable duty to notice also that war is profitable, whereas the means of peaceableness, being cheap or free, make no money." Wendell Berry
"In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints." Frederick Buechner
"A genuine public life begins with the premise that victories for the whole are greater than victories for any of its parts... The foundation of public life is the tenacious faith that we are in this thing together and can find ways for everyone to win." Parker Palmer in The Company of Strangers
"Community building is more an orientation than a technique, more an outlook than an activity. A community's own strengths, whether they are found in churches, block clubs, local leadership, or its problem-solving abilities, are central. Community building is based on the belief that urban neighbors and neighborhood institutions can and must be primary actors in efforts to solve the problems of their neighborhoods." - Lizbeth Schorr in Common Purpose
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." Victor Hugo
Genius is eternal patience. -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564)
“What we set about when we began following Jesus was to become radically Christian persons linked in Christian compassion to a world of great evil… We really can’t find anything better to declare than ‘the peace of God that surpasses all understanding.’ His shalom can fill those who trust in him with the spiritual resources which will enable them to wage war on war, and provide them with weapons which by their peaceableness partakes of the nature of the kingdom for whose coming they both pray and work.” – Timothy L. Smith
"It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view. The Kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision. We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us. No statement says all that can be said. No prayer fully expresses our faith. No confession brings perfection, No pastoral visit brings wholeness. No program accomplishes the church's mission. No set of goals and objectives includes everything. This is what we are about. We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produces effects far beyond our capabilities. We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. That enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest. We may never see the end results. But that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are the workers, not the master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own. Amen." Archbishop Oscar Romero
The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. -John Milton (1608-1674) [Paradise Lost]
A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese Proverb
The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in this warm world within the cold and empty stellar distances will hardly balk at the turning of water into wine — which was, after all, a very small miracle. We forget the greater and still continuing miracle by which water (with soil and sunlight) is turned into grapes. Wendell Berry
If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change! But now the silent succession suggests nothing but necessity. To most men only the cessation of the miracle would be miraculous and the perpetual exercise of God's power seems less wonderful than its withdrawal would be. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." Carl Jung
“Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.” Joseph Campbell
"For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written - heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world." Angela Carter
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I loved the quotes. Thank you!
I'm SherryT or tree_lady.
Thank you for all of the quotes. May I share a selection with some friends/ I'll add your LJ url at the same time.
Being in bed with a cat in your arms is truly indescribable. Some of the best "states" in the world simply defy the limits of words. I'm grateful for joys that are too big for language, but it can be frustrating to me as an author.
I came to your journal because of your "mythopoeic" tag. Are you a member of the Mythopoeic Society? Do you like the work of the Inklings? (I apologize for not looking at your profile for answers. I just joined LJ today, and I'm afraid I'll lose this page if I go off looking for a profile.
Under the Mercy,
SherryT
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Re: I loved the quotes. Thank you!
I am very glad to meet you. I look forward to getting to know you better as well. I hope you enjoy lj. I am interested in hearing more about the book you've written.
I am not a member of the Mythopoeic Society, but I am very interested. I've not read many of the Inklings, but I do enjoy those I have.
Take care!
Jenny
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Re: I loved the quotes. Thank you!
I'm sorry it took me a couple of days to respond! Too busy with one convention down and one to go, etc.
You wrote:
I am glad you like the quotes. I've been collecting for a while, but only in the last few months have I been assembling them on my lj. Feel free to share them.
Thanks! I'll do that!
I am very glad to meet you. I look forward to getting to know you better as well. I hope you enjoy lj.
Thank you for your greeting! I'm so glad you "friended" me. (Do lj people use friend as a verb?)
I like lj so far but I haven't had a chance to do much networking yet. Right now, I'm trying to get into the habit of posting every day.
I am interested in hearing more about the book you've written.
Grin. One of my favorite sentences. Look at my most recent entry which has links to my website: KhivasMommy.googlepages.com/home
If you follow the links, they'll lead you to Seabird's loo-oo-ng history, my motivation in writing it, a couple of extracts and a synopsis.
I am not a member of the Mythopoeic Society, but I am very interested. I've not read many of the Inklings, but I do enjoy those I have.
What have you read?
My favorite Inkling --in many ways-- is the one no one has ever heard of, Charles Williams. He wrote seven "supernatural thrillers" back in the 1930's-40's, plus some very esoteric but beautiful Arthurian poetry.
A long time ago now, I read everything of C.S. Lewis's that was in print. And, of course of read Tolkien's Hobbit and LotR but not much of the writings assembled by his son, Christopher. I'm also a fan of George MacDonald who was a great influence on Lewis.
I haven't read many published books for years now--I've been working nearly nonstop on "Seabird" and its sequel. I've also been involved with three writers' groups.
Take care!
Jenny
I hope we can talk again soon! From your posts, I believe we may have a lot in common.
SherryT
p.s. Love the purple formatting--my favorite color!