Sunday 15 November 2009

LOVE

Some thoughts.

It is so multifaceted but always desires the good and pleasure of the loved one. The highest love is to accept, protect and give of itself without the need to be loved. It partakes of joy, truth, beauty, gratitude and generosity. It seeks to make the other the best and most joyful that they can be.

REFLECTION

Is life worth living - the ultimate question. It calls for reflection, an examination of all of life.

The art of thinking must result in the art of living. It must be energised by emotion but requires toil of the mind. There must be a critique of illusions and prejudices. It can never end in debating. It requires courage to act in the face of evil and self-denial in the face of egotism.

Joyful, truthful living is seen to be the end of wisdom - an invigorating lucidity. The Bible describes the beginning of wisdom as fearing God. Eternal life is to know Him. Christ,the Wisdom of God made man, is 'the Way, the Truth and the Life.' The seal of this truth, His resurrection.

Words of wisdom should be as a pebble in a pond whose ripples continue to spread out far beyond its own circumference.

Saturday 7 November 2009

TIME

Thoughts gathered.

'Make every moment learning,sharing and caring.'

As bees, draw the nectar from every flower and turn it into honey to revitalise the lives of others.

In this fast-changing and troubled world, make music of every moment, and dance to your words.

Make life an art form of beauty and truth in ever-present reality.

'Give the mundane its beautiful due.'

'...redeeming the time for the days are evil.
Ephesians 5 vs 16

Thursday 5 November 2009

PARLIAMENT AND CITIZENSHIP

Desiderius Erasmus 1517

'I enter the court of kings...I see every outward sign of the highest offices and humanity....It is all paint and varnish. Everything is corrupted by open faction, or by secret grudges and animosities.'

'...they stab one another with pens dipped in the venom of malice.'

Cyril Joad late 20th century.

'Modern civilization is the result of endowing with the fruits of a dozen men of genius a population which is emotionally at the level of savages and culturally at the level of schoolboys.'

Further thoughts:

'Civilisation is a thin veneer over animal instincts and easily overturned.'