"According to Modern Bride magazine, the average bride spends 150 hours planning her wedding. The average groom spends 150 hours going, "Yeah, sounds good."
- Jay Leno
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Communication
"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating."
- Jim Carrey in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
- Jim Carrey in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"
Failure
"Failure is God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction.""
- Oprah Winfrey
- Oprah Winfrey
My Father
"I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
- Mario Cuomo in Time
- Mario Cuomo in Time
Graduation Advice
"When they said to you at graduation, 'Follow your dream,' did anybody say you have to wake up first?"
- Bill Cosby
- Bill Cosby
A Question of Perception
"Maybe the whole thing's a question of perception."
"What is?"
"Well, it's not the way that people see you that's the problem. It's the way you see them seeing you."
- Bryan Brown to Mimi Rogers in "Full Body Massage"
"What is?"
"Well, it's not the way that people see you that's the problem. It's the way you see them seeing you."
- Bryan Brown to Mimi Rogers in "Full Body Massage"
An Individual
Be an individual by virtue of your unique contribution to the world - not by insulting or assaulting the world.
- from a long forgotten daily calendar of positive self advice
- from a long forgotten daily calendar of positive self advice
The Lost Gospels
Do you think these texts and your work allow people who have trouble with their faith to say, "Oh, there is another dimension here?"
To me, that's very important because, I think, if you try to swallow Christian faith as it is often taught, it's indigestible. There is an element in it that, if you must take it all literally, causes most people to raise questions. Was Jesus really born from a virgin? What do we mean by the resurrection of the dead? So, yes, my work and what I try to do in my books is an invitation to say, "We can think about these things." We can look at them historically. We can look at the Bible, not as something that just descended from heaven in a cloud of gold, but a collection, laboriously assembled by countless people, with some very powerful truths in it. But that doesn't mean we have to take it all as if it were literally true and just simply try to swallow it. We can think about it, we can discuss it. As Jesus says, "Let the ones who seeks not stop seeking until he finds. When he finds, he'll be troubled. When he's troubled, he'll be astonished." Jesus clearly invites us to a process of exploration - not simply a set of beliefs that we either accept or reject. We can hold to the elements we love about it, and say that for others, maybe it's different. And with this new evidence, I think that's a remarkable opportunity.
- from the Secret of the Code, p. 105
To me, that's very important because, I think, if you try to swallow Christian faith as it is often taught, it's indigestible. There is an element in it that, if you must take it all literally, causes most people to raise questions. Was Jesus really born from a virgin? What do we mean by the resurrection of the dead? So, yes, my work and what I try to do in my books is an invitation to say, "We can think about these things." We can look at them historically. We can look at the Bible, not as something that just descended from heaven in a cloud of gold, but a collection, laboriously assembled by countless people, with some very powerful truths in it. But that doesn't mean we have to take it all as if it were literally true and just simply try to swallow it. We can think about it, we can discuss it. As Jesus says, "Let the ones who seeks not stop seeking until he finds. When he finds, he'll be troubled. When he's troubled, he'll be astonished." Jesus clearly invites us to a process of exploration - not simply a set of beliefs that we either accept or reject. We can hold to the elements we love about it, and say that for others, maybe it's different. And with this new evidence, I think that's a remarkable opportunity.
- from the Secret of the Code, p. 105
Cold
"I know a cold as cold as it gets,
I know a darkness that's darker than cold,
A wind that blows as cold as it gets,
Blew out the light of my soul."
- Lyrics from Impossible Dream by Patty Griffin
(Esquire, March 2004)
I know a darkness that's darker than cold,
A wind that blows as cold as it gets,
Blew out the light of my soul."
- Lyrics from Impossible Dream by Patty Griffin
(Esquire, March 2004)
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