"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

When Morality Was Not Relative

"At that time the provincial University we attended the could not promise us anything more than chance to teach in a rural school in a remote area for miserly wages. The NKVD school dangled before us special rations and double or triple pay..... People can shout at you from all sides: "You must!" And your own head can be saying also: "You must!" But inside your breast there is a sense of revulsion, repudiation. I don't want to. It makes me feel sick. Do what you want without with me; I want no part of it. 

This came from very far back, ......

at a time when morality was not considered relative and when the distinction between good and evil was very simply perceived by the heart."


- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago 

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