“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
—Jim Rohn
Category: DISCERNMENT
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Things happen in our lives—moments happen—we’re saved from certain things. God touches our hearts in certain ways, and yet there is no change. …Why? Because change means I need to change. Something in my life has to change. …It might mean that I have to change certain things about myself—certain behaviors, certain relationships. …It might mean I need to have a real hard think about the way I’m living my life. …It might mean I might have to look like a fool socially. …it may mean that I have to look at that thing in my life which I know is not appropriate, but it gives me joy and it gives me pleasure, and so I keep it there. Change is required.
We Need Change
Sunday Homilies, 4 Feb 18
February 4, 2018 • Fr. Daniel Fanous -
“Too much indecision is a decision.”
— Brianna Wiest -
“Very often, people could be so much more interesting—to themselves, to others—if they were just honest. If they weren’t so afraid of saying things like, ‘How am I going to look if I say this?’”
—David Heinemeier Hansson -
And here’s David McCullough:
There’s an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book. In time I began to understand that it’s when you start writing that you really find out what you don’t know and need to know.
START BEFORE YOU THINK YOU’RE READY -
Quiet your thoughts and listen to your feelings instead. Decision fatigue is exhausting because it’s a side effect of living inside your thoughts. Circular thoughts are caused by the deep-seated belief that there is ONE RIGHT ANSWER. You want to know the correct course of action. Naps, good or bad? Exercise, good or bad? Food, good or bad? Booze, good or bad? Every action is a binary moral toggle.
Feel your way forward instead. Sometimes a nap is delicious. Other times, a nap is a way to avoid exercise or work. Sometimes work is delicious. Sometimes not working is not only necessary but sublime. If you work too much when you’re really, truly not feeling it, that can slow your productivity down a lot. You rebel against your own edict.
Yesterday, I woke up at 2 am and walked 7 miles on my treadmill desk while writing a new chapter of my book. I took at nap at 11 am. The day before that, I walked 8 miles, worked 12 hours, and finished the draft of huge chapter of my book. I don’t think I’ve ever tried to write for that long before, but it just kept coming. The week before that, I had been struggling to even look at either my treadmill or my book, but my writing (and my entire body maybe?) fell into a hallucinatory wormhole and I went with it.
ASK MOLLY | Glory – Maybe you want some for yourself. -
This thought of yours is wicked; for it wants to prevent you from correcting your brother. Therefore, do not prevent yourself from speaking; but rather, speak according to God.
For, indeed, even sick people that are being healed will speak against their doctors; yet, the latter do not care, knowing that the same people will thank them afterward.
Letters from the Desert: A Selection of Questions and Responses (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press Popular Patristics Series) -
Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone’s lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don’t have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.
―Rick Warren
SO GOOD QUOTES 