“Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.”
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Think Different
riches
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”
- Henry David Thoreau
En livsstil
“Christian life consists chiefly in who we are, not just what we know or believe…” Thomas à Kempis
The Sacred Romance
“Indeed, if we will listen, a sacred romance calls to us through our heart every moment of our lives. It whispers to us on the wind, invites us through the laughter of good friends, reaches out to us through the touch of someone we love. We’ve heard it in our favorite music, sensed it at the birth of our first child, been drawn to it while watching the shimmer of a sunset on the ocean. The romance is even present in times of great personal suffering; the illness of a child, the loss of a marriage, the death of a friend. Something calls us through experiences like these and rouses an inconsolable longing deep within our heart, wakening in us a yearning for intimacy, beauty, and adventure” (Curtis et al. 1997: 7)
Accepting God
“Not to accept and love and do God’s will is to refuse the fullness of my existence” (Merton 1950: 17).
God has the Answer
“since God alone possesses the secret of my identity, he alone can make me who I am or rather, He alone can make me who I will be when I at last fully begin to be” (Merton, 1950: 16f).
God has spoken me
“God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of himself” (Merton, 1950: 21).
Saints
“For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self” (Merton, 1950: 16).
The Quest
“But in all that happens, my one desire and my one joy should be to know: ‘Here is the thing that God has willed for me. In this His love is found, and in accepting this I can give back His love to him and give myself to him, and grow up in His will to contemplation, which is life everlasting” (Merton, 1950: 9).
Soul Seeds
“Every moment and every event of every man plants something in his soul” (Merton, 1950: 7).
