Richard Wurndrandt

"If one cannot be the smallest of giants, he can strive to be the greatest among dwarfs."

It's not unlike.

Asking for peace is not unlike asking God to make you responsible. We would never look at the human condition and deduce that people would sacrifice, say no to temptation, and plan ahead--and yet-- some do. In the same way, we can't look at peace, just as much a gift from God, and assume it was something the individual who possesses it never worked towards. God gives us fertile ground, and causes increase, but only so long as we till the soil. This isn't synergism. This isn't Monergism. The workload isn't equal and all the power is from one source.

Ask God to make you responsible.

Works towards being able to rest.

Pensées

...[Make] it attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show them that it is.

(Blaise Pascal on Christianity.)

Richard Foster

In contemporary society our Adversary majors in three things: noise,hurry, and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied. Psychiatrist Carl Jung once remarked, "Hurry is not of the Devil; it is the Devil. "

If we hope to move beyond the superficialities of our culture, including our religious culture, we must be willing to go down into retreating silences, into the inner world of contemplation.

bricoleur

is a term used in several disciplines, among them the visual arts and literature, to refer to the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things which happen to be available, or a work created by such a process.

I love Bricoleuring.

Aleatoric.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Was famous for coming up with the Serenity prayer . His original prayer was:

"Father, give us courage to change what must be altered, serenity to accept what cannot be helped, and the insight to know the one from the other."

The most Common AA version is:

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can change, And wisdom to know the difference."

Life is a struggle between Consistency and Hypocrisy.