Life is easier when you know what you want
— but most people don’t take the time to figure out what they want.
It’s not that we are completely lost,
but our efforts are often slightly misdirected.
People will work for years and ultimately achieve a lifestyle that isn’t quite what they were hoping for
—often, simply, because they never clearly defined what they wanted.
An hour of thinking can save you a decade of work.
— James Clear
- There’s A Good Possibility That You Won’t Get What You Pray ForThis, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It… Read more: There’s A Good Possibility That You Won’t Get What You Pray For
- I Know You Are There By How Often I Feel Your AbsenceI know You are there by how often I feel Your absence, not at all like abandonment, not wholly like loneliness, which has its share… — Derrick Austin from poem Audience
- To Love Is Not About MergingTo love is not about merging. It is a noble calling for the individual to ripen, to differentiate, to become a world in oneself in response to another. It is a great, immodest call that singles out a person and summons them beyond all boundaries. Only in this sense may we use the love that… Read more: To Love Is Not About Merging
- Infinite Distances Continue To Exist Even Between The Closest Of Human BeingsOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky. — Rainer Maria Rilke… Read more: Infinite Distances Continue To Exist Even Between The Closest Of Human Beings