I enjoyed perusing your blog, and intend to come back later when I have more time and makes more detailed comments. I found you by googling the phrase ‘Lady Poverty.’ I have observed a vow of poverty since 1996, and have a perspective slightly different from Murry Bodo (you quoted from him in a blog entry made in July 2008).
"out of this disturbance and doubt, knowledge might emerge"
thomas merton
"the true philosopher and the true poet become what they are when they 'go beyond' philosophy and poetry, and cease to 'be philosophers' or to 'be poets.' it is at that point that their whole lives become philosophy and poetry-in other words, there is no longer any philosophy or any poetry separable from the unity of their existence. philosophy and poetry have disappeared. the ordinary acts of everyday life-eating, sleeping, walking, etc., become philosophical acts which grasp the ultimate principles of life in life itself and not in abstraction."
søren kierkegaard
"if passion is eliminated, faith no longer exists, and certainty and passion do not go together"
Midrash Friday, August 21 7-9pm @ the Clarks 13701 12th St. Grandview, MO 64030 Please join us as we gather to wrestle with the thoughts of Shane Clainborne in his book The Irresistible Revolution: Living as Ordinary Radicals. This will be the first in a series of conversations centered around the idea and practice of living as Ordinary Radicals. What [...] […]
“A man does not live for himself alone in this mortal body to work for it alone, but he lives also for all men on earth; rather, he lives only for others and not for himself. . . . Therefore he should be guided in all his works by this thought and contemplate this one [...]
God as a working hypothesis in morals, politics, or science, has been surmounted and abolished; and the same thing has happened in philosophy and religion (Feuerbach!). For the sake of intellectual honesty, that working hypothesis should be dropped, or as far as possible eliminated. . . . And we cannot be honest unless we recognize that [...]
That’s my little bro! You’re so grown up studying philosophy and all that crazy stuff I never thought you’d be into. Love you! Rick
I enjoyed perusing your blog, and intend to come back later when I have more time and makes more detailed comments. I found you by googling the phrase ‘Lady Poverty.’ I have observed a vow of poverty since 1996, and have a perspective slightly different from Murry Bodo (you quoted from him in a blog entry made in July 2008).
Anyway. I hope you will check out my blog when you have time: http://dianestranz.wordpress.com.