Swallowed Up Lives

"We go through the motions of doing so many things as if there is no alternative way of spending our days....... Any sense of Rhythm in our daily, weekly, and yearly lives has been swallowed up in the blizzard of our Lives. Add to this the storms and trials of life that blow into our lives unexpectedly and catch us off-guard, and we wonder why so many of us are disoriented and Confused. "

- Peter Scazzero. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality. 

Bad Situations - Require Rogues

"And Stratonicus asked his host at Seriphus,

for what offence exile

was the appointed punishment,

and being told that

they punished rogues by exile, said,

"Why then are not you a rogue,

to escape from this hole of a place?""

- Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. First Century Greek Philosopher.

How To Avoid Politics

"Alcmæon, when fleeing from the Furies, so the poets tell us, dwelt in a place recently formed by the silting of the Achelous; but I think he chose that little spot to dwell in ease and quiet, merely to avoid political disturbances and factions..."

- Plutarch. Plutarch's Morals. First Century Greek Philosopher.

The Beauty Was There All The Time

When one strains and labors over his dream he is too often carving Ivory and not polishing horn. Don't cut too deeply, don't carve too hard, don't paint the picture too much yourself. Get still a while, and let God paint it through you. Wrote Gutzon Borglum, "When I carve a statue, it is very simple. I merely cut away the pieces that don't belong there and the statue itself presently comes into view. It was there all the time."" 

- Glenn Clark. I will lift up mine eyes.