September 2008
7 posts
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm. If we strive to be happy by filling all the silences of life with wound, productive by turning all life’s leisure into work, and real by turning all our being into doing, we will only succceed in producing a hell on earth.
-thomas...
Italian Cusine with Brennan Manning tonight
Highlights:
After being asked about what it felt like to be famous he eventually said, “I am not a leader. Most of the time I’m like ‘What the Hell is going on?’”
His stories of seven months of solitude and visiting Assi.
“So, anyone else leave room for icecream?” (After finishing a quarter of his plate, he pushed it back and asked that question. The...
Aristotle on friendship
According to Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), there are three kinds of friendship: friendships based on usefulness and advantage, those based on pleasure, and those based on goodness and virtue. The first two, says Aristotle, do not involve people who feel genuinely affection for one another per se. Such “friends” are attracted to each other solely as a means of some advantage or pleasure that each...
south america sojourn. →
“If God wanted to re-do Isaiah 6, he could have made his own smoke.”
– R. Castleman, on the smoke machines employed during the reading of Isaiah 6 at an Intervarsity worship service. 