effort is brute force. It can only accomplish by means of pushing or pulling. It’s blunt and ineffectual against sophisticated reasoning or planning. But creativity is something else. It radiates backwards and makes the electrons of your brain spin erratically. It’s a cool frissioning through your gray matter, minus-a-million degrees celsius. The ultimate, ecstatic path.
Things happen because of love.
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Fear is the passive mood of love. If you love something, work to make it better. If you only fear to lose what you love, it’s already lost.
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Faith precedes knowledge.
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From the moment you’re born, you have all the energy you’ll ever need. Just add focus.
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Better to know you’re bad than believe you’re good.
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To move forward is to move through.
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If God is love, then love is the only real emotion and everything else is a version of the truth.
Existence is a supernatural fact.
It’s not that God’s existence can’t be proven; it’s that it can’t be proven to anyone else.
You can’t know God, but you can give it a shot.
The point is not to write but to say something.
The lesser good cannot exist without its greater.
The skill of revealing oneself through action.
It’s not your job. It’s their job and you’re just keeping it warm.
My son has taught me the experience of the beautiful is of nothing else mattering.
