Merton Wisdom

Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living...until we have begun to fail, we have no way of working out our success.       --Thomas Merton -- Thought in Solitude

Wisdom of Lao Tzu

Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for?  Then step away from shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness.  If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself.  If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself.  Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
-Lao Tzu

The Uses of Not

Thirty spokes

meet in the hub.

Where the wheel isn’t

is where it’s useful.

Hollowed out,

clay makes a pot.

Where the pot’s not

is where it’s useful.

Cut doors and windows

to make a room.

Where the room isn’t,

there’s room for you.

So the profit in what is

is in the use of what isn’t.

Lao-Tzu

Source: Lao Tao Te Ching 

translated by Ursula Le Guin

GRATITUDE

For all that has been — thanks. 

For all that shall be — yes.

Dag Hammarskjöld

The Book .. from T. J. Grey

                       àCOMMUNITYß

CONNECTION –– UNITY

not uniformity

The only story that I can tell is my story. The only way that I can worship anything is the way that speaks to me, my history, my present life, and my future. God has given me this and I cherish it and I do not get upset if you don’t understand it. Each of us comes to life from a different place and as a consequence each of us is unique and each of us will see our lives differently.
                        

Theo Logos

Some people call it "god",

some people call it "fate",

some people call it "destiny",

and some just call it "accident".

What is this god, fate, destiny, accident?

LIFE --- in all of its colors, shades, and hues.

              -T.J. Grey