The Hollow Lives of Our Holodecks
Sunday, May 18th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Personal Growth, Psychology, Society | 1 Comment »We are the Hollow Men, We are the stuffed men, Leaning together, Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, ...
More Thoughts on Discipline and Love
Friday, May 16th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Over the last several days we have engaged M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled, focusing on some of his writings on love, as well as explored the topics of love and romance more generally. Continuing in that vein, and ...
The Discipline of Love
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Re-reading parts of M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled has been greatly refreshing in the last few days, as well as greatly challenging. In his section on Love, Peck makes an observation that I think is quite lost on ...
Just be content with what we have?
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Personal Growth, Psychology | No Comments »Yesterday a friend and reader of this blog made the following comment in response to my post about Love: "I take it you aren't a fan of the old saying 'true happiness means learning to be happy with what you already ...
On Love and Romance, and the Most Important Things In Life
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Personal Growth, Psychology | No Comments »Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star ...
Good Friday Christians or Easter Christians?
Sunday, May 4th, 2008 Posted in Living the Christian Life, Religion | 1 Comment »Most days I wake up utterly confounded about what topic to select for my blog. This has been particularly problematic lately, and thus why I have been rather sporadic in my posting. But this morning, in preparation for church, I ...