Quotes About Reflection

Restlessness, therefore, is not to be regretted, but marshaled. Humans live toward.

Having seen what the Catholic priesthood has become, I feel the shock, also, of what it has in some way been all along.

The shame I feel as a Catholic Christian, aware in detail of the ways that the Church sanctified the hatred of Jews, not only betraying Jesus but tilling the soil out of which would come the worst crime in history, is shame not only at what my people did, but at what I can now admit I might well have done myself. When, on

had come here with my three questions. The first: How did the history of Christian antisemitism contribute to the Holocaust? The second: How did the Church abet, or oppose, the Holocaust as it unfolded? And the third: How does the Church today negotiate that layered past, both the deep past of antisemitism and the recent past of the Holocaust? With Edith Stein, that

I know I feel satisfied with myself, & that is one step, & a great one, to getting comfortable if not happy again.

Curious, I thought, the way nature provided for eyelids, but not lids for the ears.

Isn't it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? Like tonight, watching all those brave men meet their fate here, on this shore, on this gentle night, through a karma ordained a thousand lifetimes ago, or perhaps even one. Isn't it only through laughter we can stay human?

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

Oare ce-s nourii Daca nu o justificare a cerului? Oare ce-i viata Daca nu o amanare a mortii?

While we advance exponentially in technological capability, our spiritual or 'biological technology,' our maturity as a species, is still two or three thousand years in the past. This is because many of us live according to ideas that were original and groundbreaking... in 500 B.C. Most people are unwilling or unable to ask the hard questions- as in, why do we do things the way we do, and what will the end results be?" (p.120) Generation Hex

It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the purest essence of anyone's genius contracts itself to a precious few hours.

If I am at the same place, I was last year in regards to self-improvement, goals etc. I will take my own self back behind the wood shed and have a come to Jesus session as that is just unacceptable period!

Had a gentleman on one of my crews this week, he reminded me of my younger self. I was putting the home back together and he was taking it apart. Karma life does not stop once you are successful instead it reintroduces itself through younger versions of you.

I only know how to be me and also become a new version of me each day otherwise what's the point of living life

Closeting your failures only prolongs your future

Closeting your failures only prolongs your success

It Doesn't take much to look around and see all the blessings in your life

Time is used solely as a guideline and not as a law or rule as most learned to not be able to do anything outside of a timeline, Train yourself to put in extra time in the places in your life that counts and look back next year and see where you are at

I compare myself to those in the bible who lived to be 950 years old by doing this I am only a spring chicken and look forward to the next 100 years of my life

We tend to become wiser after the fact from any situation

with a white bead

As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

Lent survives as a much moderated version of this self-imposed discomfort.

James Dale Davidson