“A man arrives in a car, and with his hands, grabs the lions and kicks and punches them, and they turn into butterflies flying in the air. ... The man was silent, unable to speak. Eating the butterflies from the animals he fought.”
Source: Tomiétrèla
“Here are the skies, the planets seven,
And all the starry train:
Content you with the mimic heaven,
And on the earth remain.
(Additional Poems, V)”
Source: The Collected Poems of A.E. Housman
“Personalization filters serve a kind of invisible autopropaganda, indoctrinating us with our own ideas, amplifying our desire for things that are familiar in leaving us oblivious to the dangers lurking in the dark territory of the unknown.”
Source: The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
“I was still unteachable, being inflated with the novelty of heresy.”
“But you can't be too careful of these strange new ideas and new things. You must not tamper with them. If you try to understand them, they may entangle and get hold of you, and then where will you be? Hide your mind from them, and hide them from your mind. Stick to the plain common sense of life. There will always be a tomorrow rather like today. At least so far there always has been a fairly similar tomorrow. Once or twice lately there have been jolts...
Try not to notice these jolts.
'It is no good meeting trouble halfway.”
Source: You Can't Be Too Careful
“Thou has't all the symptoms of hubris but, alas, remaineth unw'rthy of the condition.”
“We don’t have to be afraid of stepping out. We don’t have to be afraid of failing. We only have to be afraid of not trusting God.”
Source: Faith Adventures: Stories of Learning with an Unseen God
“When we lack faith, God is not surprised by it. When we lack faith, God can supply it. When we receive the faith He gives us, God is honored by it.”
Source: Faith Adventures: Stories of Learning with an Unseen God
“Our God isn’t shallow. Our God doesn’t call us to shallow, and He knows that sometimes with a phone call, a ran stoplight, a routine blood test, or a sonogram, we can be thrown into the deep end. He is there in the deep end with us.”
Source: Faith Adventures: Stories of Learning with an Unseen God
“If you want your physical, mental, emotional and eventually spiritual circumstances to transform completely, perhaps even beyond your wildest dreams, be willing to step out of your comfort zone onto the dance floor of your own mindfully chosen life.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality