Category: Miscellaneous
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The farmer's crop
Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. [Extract from ‘The Mad Farmer Liberation Front‘ by Wendell Berry] What we work for as success is rarely success. What outlasts us are rarely the things we imagined would. So in all our doing we…
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The right interpretation
“The right interpretation of the law is the one that produces love.” Augustine (Matthew 22:37-40)
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Only those
Only those who walk the paths know more than maps; Only those who enjoy the Presence can truly talk of God. (David Adam, Walking the Edges)
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Why write?
I will post somethng of my own soon. I have more some thoughts in my notebook that I’d like to post here. In the mean time here are some thoughts from Henri Nouwen on writing: Writing to Save the Day Writing can be a true spiritual discipline. Writing can help us to concentrate, to get…
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Holy energy
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5 To reference Peterson – sometimes to understand the meaning of a word you have to understand the story in which it sits. In this case – meek – is first attributed to Moses (Jesus appears to be quoting Psalm 37 here, but the…
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Love, courage and wisdom
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world. Ammon Hennacy (Catholic activist 1893-1970)
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Reconciliation / The Wall
This digital print on canvas is a visual reflection of time I spent in Berlin (2003). The work is a collage of magazine cuttings and photos taken by myself at Berlin’s East side gallery, where parts of the famous wall still stood — a reminder of what once split the city in two, marked by…