February 2012
4 posts
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“Anxiety strives to become fear, because fear can be met by courage. It is...”
– Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (39).
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“Courage is self-affirmation “in-spite-of”, that is in spite of that...”
– Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (32).
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“Since every day a little of our life is taken from us - since we are dying every...”
– Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (14).
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“Perfect courage is, according to Thomas, a gift of the Divine Spirit. Through...”
– Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (8).
January 2012
4 posts
4 tags
“The best approach is existentialist, and the existentialist approach, in...”
– Thomas Merton, journal of June 20, 1965.
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“Being and doing become one, in our life, when our life and being themselves are...”
– Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island 142 (via aphotographicprotest)
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“Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
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“To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely—to step in the name...”
– Cornel West, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (via godthings).
October 2011
5 posts
3 tags
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to...”
– Steve Jobs, 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford University (video)
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“To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in...”
– Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving.
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“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (via invisibleforeigner)
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“Love is possible only if two persons communicate with each other from the center...”
– Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving.
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“To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a...”
– Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving.
September 2011
31 posts
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“Infantile love follows the principle: “I love because I am loved.”...”
– Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving.
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“Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of...”
– Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving.
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“Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is...”
– Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
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“If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means...”
– N.T. Wright (via firstbreath90)
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“Not until a person has become so wretched that his only wish, his only...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“Imitation is not a requirement of the law, for then we would have the burden of...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“Christianity’s history is one of alienation from God through the gradual...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“Capital punishment is the penalty for preaching Christianity in character.”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“[H]ad Americans not developed a seductive mechanism to make money off one...”
– A. Reza Arasteh, Rediscovering America (75)
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“Though it is not absolutely certain that he who walks with chains around his...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“It means that no one becomes a believer by hearing about Christianity, by...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“Christ does not ask for a higher love in addition to praising friendship and...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“Indeed, in the whole wide world there are not to be found two loves who fit each...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“Faith is the contradiction between the infinite passion of inwardness and...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“God is a subject to be related to, not an object to be studied or mediated on....”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“God is infinite love and for this reason has no cause. He will not suddenly...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“Wherever God is, there he is always creating. He does not want a person to be...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“The advantages and benefits of earthly life are bound up in mediocrity. But...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, heterodoxies,...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“Therefore, dare to renew your decision. It will lift you up again to have trust...”
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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“Travel the world over, get to know the most various cultures, go about and enter...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
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“I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
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“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
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“One of the most interesting things about reality is that we get to test it out.”
– Daniel M Ingram, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book.
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“Let’s start with faith and wisdom. Faith in deficiency can lead to...”
– Daniel M Ingram, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book.
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“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden.
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“As far as I am concerned it is never a question if God exists. The question is...”
– Stanley Hauerwas (via invisibleforeigner)
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“One must realize that “love is labor” and labor must become love.”
– A Reza Arasteh, Toward Final Personality Integration 126.
August 2011
4 posts
3 tags
“Look, if you need a series of truths to assure yourself that Jesus has been...”
– Stanley Hauerwas (via invisibleforeigner)
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“Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and...”
– Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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“If a new faith is to capture our imagination, it must be one that will account...”
– Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I...”
– Thomas Merton, journal of October 2, 1958 (via ambiguousava).
July 2011
25 posts
2 tags
“Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is...”
– Louis de Bernières, Correllii’s Mandolin.
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“To have strength, love must face realities. It must confront obstacles. It must...”
– Thomas Merton, The New Man (190-1).