Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Category: TRANSCIENCE
-
-
Can you really think that the inner peace you are seeking depends on the locality you finally choose to live in? Surely, inner peace is acquired only by humbly living in accordance with the commandments: Learn of me: for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls (Matt. 11.29).
Where you do it is beside the question….
Letters of Elder Macarius of Optina -
The unrest incident to youth, the vacillating response to disparate appeals, the insatiable hunger for whatever appears attractive or beautiful will subside, and a steady orientation towards the essential and decisive become dominant.
Supernatural readiness to change should grow with age..
Transformation in Christ
Dietrich von Hildebrand -
There is tension between George and Johnny, between Ashley and Johnny, between the world and Johnny. He spends long hours away from everyone, but watch him down in the basement, when a documentary about meerkats comes on TV. He knows his wife “loves meerkats.” He races around desperately to find a blank videotape, so he can tape the show. It would mean so much to him to give her this video. He fails. Ashley explains about the tab that keeps you from re-recording over something, but he responds with anger and, of course, takes it out on her.
-
“In mourning, I have learned that every version of myself must grieve her loss.”
“That sense of longing now extends to feeling outside of my body. Someone recently told me that losing your mother is primal. It is the deepest loss.”
“I had not been vigilant on either occasion and I had missed something. I had missed everything.”
“She had brought me into this world and I was helping her out of it.”
What My Mother Didnt Talk About
Karolina Waclawiak -
“…and it was said that Rossetti never got over his wife’s death, because he thought he had not been perfectly kind to her during the last years of her life, and that she might have lived longer if he had been more kindly. His friends repudiate that, and say it is not true; but if it was not true of Rossetti, it is true of many people.
The sin of neglect, the sin of inattention, the sin of absorption in self, these have wrought a great sorrow in the lives of some, and they never rise out of the dust after.”
The Gift of Suffering
by F.B. Meyer -
Many people do not feel the value of something until after they have lost it!
…
The son who neglects to honour his parents mistreats them and only feels their value after he has lost them, whether it is through their death or by losing their approval or blessing…
In general, a person is not aware of the value of life and the importance of eternity until after he has lost that life and eternity both together…
How nice it is if a person wakes up to himself and perceives the value of his situation before he loses it, especially something which cannot be retrieved once it has been lost!!
—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Experiences in Life -
130. Such a man knows with certainty that those who detach themselves from worldly things must endure some slight hardship in this present life, but after death they receive from God eternal blessedness and peace.
—St Anthony the Great
On the Character of Men and on the Virtuous Life
One Hundred and Seventy Texts
