“I laugh a lot. I’m like a little laughing Buddha, I guess, a Buddha bird or somebody I could be called. If you’re not living a life that way, I think in this sense you’re missing the essence of life, so that’s the thing where, you gravitate to these religions hopefully that is not simply about rituals, but you’re infusing with a certain sense of being in terms of getting you through this life.”
~E. Ethelbert Miller from Black & Universal
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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
~C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays in Literature
Photo by Lucinda Lovering/Flickr, cc by-nd 2.0
“The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers along the way, what he needs.”
~Wally Lamb from The Hour I First Believed
photo by Flickr / Annais Ferreira cc by-nc-nd 2.0
“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he must choose.”
~Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967)
From The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Photo by Jack Delano, Library of Congress
“Education is a holistic endeavor that involves the whole person, including our bodies, in a process of formation that aims our desires, primes our imagination, and orients us to the world — all before we ever start thinking about it.”
~James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
Hear more of Professor Smith in Evangelicals Out of the Box
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“Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love, a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one’s bridges because you’re never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.”
~Saul Alinsky in Reveille for Radicals
(January 30, 1909 - June 12, 1972)
Photo by Luke Redmond / Flickr, cc by-nc-nd-2.0
“Our images, especially those that appear in life and play important roles in our transformation, stay with us forever. Once we have entertained an image, it is always potentially present to our gaze.”
~Thomas Moore from Care of the Soul
Shared by listener Beth Martell in response to “Seth Godin on the Art of Noticing, and Then Creating.”
Read her comment and hear the show.
Photo by Okko Pyykkö
“A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, it’s fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.”
~Ursula K. Le Guin from The Word for World is Forest
photo by Ania Tatarynowicz
“Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”
~J.K. Rowling, 2008 Harvard commencement address
photo by CK Wong
“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.”
~John Berger from Ways of Seeing
photo by Vincent von Schnauzer
