Random stuffs...
Man, yesterday I was bumming, wasn't I? Wanna know how bad it was? It was so bad that watching this video made me cry like a baby.
Warning: People falling off horses a LOT.
( Wherein I talk about life and realizing I've fallen off the horse, tl;dr )
You know what my journal says?
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January 17, 2005:
Ration and logic are the tools by which we unknowingly allow our minds to cloud our hearts.
Enlightenment is simply giving yourself permission to believe what you already know is true.
It also says:
January 18, 2005:
Science does not preclude or negate faith. It merely offers the occasional opportunity to glimpse, in no uncertain terms, that which we have believed to be true all along.
And:
A prayer is a rational mind's way of communicating with an irrational heart.
January 26, 2005:
It is a sad irony that the sheep depend on the shepherd for protection when it was the shepherd who made them helpless to begin with.
January 30, 2005:
Knowledge without experience is not learning, and experience without learning is not wisdom. Knowing that you do not know the answer to a question when life presents it to you is 90% of learning the answer. The wisest man knows only one thing for certain, and that is that he has more to learn.
January 31, 2005:
The biggest contributor to destiny is where you are and what you are doing right now.
February 4, 2005:
So much of our lives outside of Heaven are wrapped up in the mundane and the trivial. Yet, a great part of who we are as people is determined by what we do when what we do doesn't really seem to matter.
True peace is not calm. It is not mundane. It is the resolution of true conflict, not the avoidance or absence of strife.
Choosing to know the joy in everything you do, despite conflict... that is Heaven, and you don't spend a lifetime preparing to go there. You live there every day.
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You know, there was a time when all of that made perfect sense.
It doesn't anymore.
I guess I have a lot more to learn.
Warning: People falling off horses a LOT.
( Wherein I talk about life and realizing I've fallen off the horse, tl;dr )
You know what my journal says?
****
January 17, 2005:
Ration and logic are the tools by which we unknowingly allow our minds to cloud our hearts.
Enlightenment is simply giving yourself permission to believe what you already know is true.
It also says:
January 18, 2005:
Science does not preclude or negate faith. It merely offers the occasional opportunity to glimpse, in no uncertain terms, that which we have believed to be true all along.
And:
A prayer is a rational mind's way of communicating with an irrational heart.
January 26, 2005:
It is a sad irony that the sheep depend on the shepherd for protection when it was the shepherd who made them helpless to begin with.
January 30, 2005:
Knowledge without experience is not learning, and experience without learning is not wisdom. Knowing that you do not know the answer to a question when life presents it to you is 90% of learning the answer. The wisest man knows only one thing for certain, and that is that he has more to learn.
January 31, 2005:
The biggest contributor to destiny is where you are and what you are doing right now.
February 4, 2005:
So much of our lives outside of Heaven are wrapped up in the mundane and the trivial. Yet, a great part of who we are as people is determined by what we do when what we do doesn't really seem to matter.
True peace is not calm. It is not mundane. It is the resolution of true conflict, not the avoidance or absence of strife.
Choosing to know the joy in everything you do, despite conflict... that is Heaven, and you don't spend a lifetime preparing to go there. You live there every day.
****
You know, there was a time when all of that made perfect sense.
It doesn't anymore.
I guess I have a lot more to learn.