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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
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I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
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Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
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A divided heart loses both worlds.
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The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
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When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
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The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.
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A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.
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One recognises one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
