"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Saturday, October 6, 2018

Trained Like Beasts

"But most of all we were afraid we wouldn't manage to stay in until the time came to graduate and receive our officers Insignia. (They sent those who failed to the Battle of Stalingrad.) And they trained us like young beasts, so as to infuriate us to the point where we would later want to take it out on someone else."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago. 


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