Tuesday

Random Kontent from the Kindle

"A student once asked him: 'If I haven't anything in my mind, what shall I do?' Joshu replied: 'Throw it out.' 'But if I haven't anything, how can I throw it out?' continued the questioner. 'Well,' said Joshu, 'then carry it out.' 122 Zen Koans

"Ignatius of Antioch is so close to the time of Christ that he is generally thought to be a student of Saint John the Apostle." The Saints in My Life (Groeschel)

"The divine activity permeates the whole universe, it pervades every creature; wherever they are it is there; it goes before them, with them, and it follows them; all they have to do is to let the waves bear them on." Abandonment to Divine Providence (de Caussade)

“The moment you utter a single word, you have already made a choice." Some Zen dude

"[A]s long as it was possible (I should like to add) to veto anything from or influenced by the Disney studios (for all whose works I have a heartfelt loathing)." The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

"Apart from a few poets we see these followers of Calvin contributing very little to the arts and letters. They lacked painters, musicians, architects of originality; hilarity was for them suspect and their humor was limited. In their political activities they displayed strange and disquieting tendencies; in North America they brought the Indians, with the help of bullets, whisky, and infected blankets, almost to a vanishing point. In England they led the first great attack against the institution of monarchy in Christian history, in Ireland they displayed their homicidal talents in the most brutal type of warfare, in South Africa they established republics in which the institution of slavery survived till the threshold of the twentieth century, in Hungary they allied themselves with the pagan Turks and in Japan with the Shintoists against the Catholics." Menace of the Herd (Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn)