Wisdom doesn’t reside in the head; it resides in the hands.
It’s odd that blindness is a dreaded disability; I’ve never met anyone who didn’t suffer from it.
Who you know not what you know is often the deciding factor; this is really unfortunate when what you know is the truth.
Harsh judgement is the normal lot in life, mercy the normal work of death.
Parables don’t walk on all four legs; they hop around on one point.
A walk around the block followd by a good nap bring to mind more truth than a long spell at the desk.
Refuse to speak in clichés and you might actually say what’s really on your mind.
Two kinds of truth: what everyone else is already saying; what no one else is saying but your own, soft internal voice.
Schools exist to take us beyond schools, to the place where we love to understand ourselves and others.
When buying a fine bike, fewer grams costs more money; when purchasing a wise answer from your mind, less is also more.
There are only a few weird questions, lots of weird answers.
The moment of disillusionment may yet prove salutary if we debride our torn values and gently bandage our ideals. In this way what we believe in is made ruggedly beautiful.
Orthodoxy, the straight up truth, is too often expressed in propositions three steps removed from the concrete. Then it touches only the stiff outer layer of the self. Story, drama, poetry, biography — these dress orthodoxy in reality and pierce the soul to its core.
Most souls so nicely adjusted to myopia, that it is universally accepted that anything better isn’t to be expected.
Trust the storyizers. They reveal truth in the details.
Teach one thing at a time; learners best learn one thing at a time.
Often a few bad potatoes to throw out when one prepares dinner. Usually a few bad days to throw out when one prepares ones philosophy of life.
Words are born in trial and those who stay right in trial with have right words.
Amos trumps Blake when it comes to creative imagination that gets it right.
The wise men of Jesus’ day had to be warned in a dream to avoid King Herod. You would think wise men would have wisely decerned Herod’s evil motives through their own observations. They didn’t. Wise men take care in relying only on your own analysis; the really wise know that when it comes to detecting evil – dreams required.
God deposited his voice in the prophets. A repository, like a 1970′s library, isn’t always attractive, but the stuff inside — pure, phonic, classic beauty!
There is a tendency in Christianity to turn every teaching into slate, every living truth into a hardened code. This happens when the organic, individual, person-specific application of divine wisdom is lost. Then truth dries, doctrinal sediment accumulates, orthodoxy stratifies and teaching turns into thick, heavy slabs of dogmatic shale. Not good. The cathedral weight of such misapplied belief can crush the soft, living fragile children of God.
Coming down hard on one side of an intellectual debate can close your mind like a slammed and locked closet door. Avoid the simplifications of complex issues so that you can explore the whole mansion of truth.
Konstantin Stanislavski taught actors to, ”Think of your own experiences and use them truthfully.” So did Jesus.
You must keep thinking well. This means being…
Flexible and open to learn.
Looking ahead to the dreams God gives.
Action packed, full of energy.
Self-affirming, not negative and judgmental.
Holy, always moving toward holiness.
FLASH!
