· Quotes of the week
“A young Apollo, golden haired, stands dreaming on the verge of strife, magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.”
Mrs. Frances Macdonald Cornford
Mrs. Frances Macdonald Cornford
The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the materialist's world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane. G.K. Chesterton
· Websites of the week
· The culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor
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Meditation of the week
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
--Eden Phillpotts
We hear others talk about how they got out of debt. We see people who have peace and serenity in their lives, who have healthy relationships and dream jobs. We realize that being debt-free means more than not having to pay as many bills. In others, we see what we have to look forward to by changing our behaviors. We get inspired and excited to be debt-free. We start working the program diligently, expecting to see miracles in our lives any minute but nothing happens.
We stop focusing on the outcome of our new ways and stay mindful of what we've committed to - no debting one day at a time. When we do this, we give energy to everything good. If we stop focusing on it, it will flow to us.
Today I will trust that when I act in a mindful and honorable way, everything good will follow.
--Eden Phillpotts
We hear others talk about how they got out of debt. We see people who have peace and serenity in their lives, who have healthy relationships and dream jobs. We realize that being debt-free means more than not having to pay as many bills. In others, we see what we have to look forward to by changing our behaviors. We get inspired and excited to be debt-free. We start working the program diligently, expecting to see miracles in our lives any minute but nothing happens.
We stop focusing on the outcome of our new ways and stay mindful of what we've committed to - no debting one day at a time. When we do this, we give energy to everything good. If we stop focusing on it, it will flow to us.
Today I will trust that when I act in a mindful and honorable way, everything good will follow.
You are reading from the book:
· Poem of the Week
Smoke Break Behind the Treatment Center
End of the third week: family weekend.
The smokers, most of the patients, are more
jittery than usual, more anxious just now
than other days to step out this door behind
the cafeteria, where they can look across
to the stubble field, world of chopped-off stalks
that has ripped them up, that they've needed
too much from. In fifteen minutes they'll see
the ones who've come to find out if
they are changing. Maybe half have family
visiting; fewer than that will leave in another
week without needing to come back, to stand
here in a different season and stare at the silo
you set yourself by, imagine walking through
your own cloud of smoke to clean blank sky.
The smokers, most of the patients, are more
jittery than usual, more anxious just now
than other days to step out this door behind
the cafeteria, where they can look across
to the stubble field, world of chopped-off stalks
that has ripped them up, that they've needed
too much from. In fifteen minutes they'll see
the ones who've come to find out if
they are changing. Maybe half have family
visiting; fewer than that will leave in another
week without needing to come back, to stand
here in a different season and stare at the silo
you set yourself by, imagine walking through
your own cloud of smoke to clean blank sky.
· IWANTONERIGHTNOW of the week
IWANTONERIGHTNOW or at least for my birthday, or fathers day or Christmas or something
