Distracted And Time Wasting

"I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man’s mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God."

- Donald Millar. Blue Like Jazz

Sacred Million Year Old Things

" If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world is contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature. Anything becomes permissible. We return once more to the nightmare cultures of Hitler, Stalin, King Philip II, Montezuma, Caligula, Heliogabalus, Herod, the Pharaohs; Christ sacrificed himself in vain."

- Edward Abbey, Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

Attentive To Time

"Therefore, be attentive to time and the way you spend it. Nothing is more precious. God, the master of time, never gives the future. He gives only the Present, Moment by moment, for this is the law of the created order.... 

You will not be able to excuse yourself in the last judgment, saying to God: "You overwhelm me with the future when I was only capable of living in the present."

- The Cloud of Unknowing

I Have Destroyed The World

Forgive me.

"..... but how do you atone when you have destroyed the world?

- Moritz Thomsen. The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey On Two Rivers