These are only hints and guesses,
Hints followed by guesses;
and the rest
Is prayer, observance, discipline,
thought and action.
-----T.S. Eliot
Sunday, January 16, 2005
"Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be."
Chris, love the quote. Reminds me of one that we just read recently from Buechner in The Magnifient Defeat: "Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live satisfactorily." p.143
Chris, love the quote. Reminds me of one that we just read recently from Buechner in The Magnifient Defeat:
ReplyDelete"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live satisfactorily."
p.143