There’s not much difference between music and magic.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
14 December 2010
08 December 2010
Happy feast of the Immaculate Conception
“Mary was as pure as the glass of a very clean window that has no other function than to admit the light of the sun. If we rejoice in that light, we implicitly praise the cleanness of the window.”
--Thomas Merton.
To reflect upon the Immaculate Conception of Mary is thus to allow oneself to be attracted by the “yes” which joined her wonderfully to the mission of Christ, Redeemer of human- ity; it is to allow oneself to be taken and led by her hand to pronounce in one’s turn “fiat” to the will of God, with all one’s existence interwoven with joys and sadness, hopes and disap- pointments, in the awareness that tribulations, pain and suffer- ing make rich the meaning of our pilgrimage on the earth."
--BXVI, Message for the Sixteenth World Day of the Sick January 11, 2008
Mary, the Medium through which the Light enters the word, Ora Pro Nobis.
--Thomas Merton.
To reflect upon the Immaculate Conception of Mary is thus to allow oneself to be attracted by the “yes” which joined her wonderfully to the mission of Christ, Redeemer of human- ity; it is to allow oneself to be taken and led by her hand to pronounce in one’s turn “fiat” to the will of God, with all one’s existence interwoven with joys and sadness, hopes and disap- pointments, in the awareness that tribulations, pain and suffer- ing make rich the meaning of our pilgrimage on the earth."
--BXVI, Message for the Sixteenth World Day of the Sick January 11, 2008
Mary, the Medium through which the Light enters the word, Ora Pro Nobis.
07 December 2010
I dreamed a dream
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. --Woodrow Wilson
29 November 2010
The Truth of the World
We mean all sort of things, I know, by Beauty. But the essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal: it is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.--T.S. Eliot
15 November 2010
Like Aslan's Country
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. --Kurt Vonnegut
08 November 2010
A revolution in the mind
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. --Victor Hugo
01 November 2010
A Magnanimous Man
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.-- Albert Camus
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