“Rejoice,” said the Sun; "I will make thee gayWith glory and gladness and holiday;I am dumb, O man, and need thy voice!”But man would not rejoice.Rejoice in thyself, said he, “O sun,For thy daily course is a lordly one;In thy lofty place rejoice if thou can:For me, I am only a man.”"Rejoice,” said the Wind; … Continue reading Rejoice
Category: Diacovering Life
A Closing Song
“Oh, well for him who breaks his dreamWith the blow that ends the strifeAnd, waking, knows the peace that flowsAround the pain of life!We are dead, my brothers! Our bodies clasp,As an armour, our souls about;This hand is the battle-axe I grasp,And this my hammer stout.Fear not, my brothers, for we are dead;No noise can … Continue reading A Closing Song
What You Do
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.” ― Alexandre Dumas
A Quote for Mike
"We are ne'er like angels till our passions die."— Dekker This wretched INN, where we scarce stay to bait,We call our DWELLING-PLACE:We call one STEP A RACE:But angels in their full enlightened state,Angels, who LIVE, and know what 'tis to BE,Who all the nonsense of our language see,Who speak THINGS, and our WORDS,their ill-drawnPICTURES, scorn,When … Continue reading A Quote for Mike
Our True Destiny
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another.”Fr. Thomas Merton
On Comus, with George
… A report of GMD's lecture on Milton, which relates his thoughts on Milton's poem "Comus": "With all honour to science, and he dare not say a word against science, for it was not of man's invention, but of God's ordering, God having given that man might find out--yet more than a knowledge of any … Continue reading On Comus, with George
Life — Smilingly Unraveled
“It may be argued again that dissatisfaction with our life's endeavour springs in some degree from dulness. We require higher tasks, because we do not recognise the height of those we have. Trying to be kind and honest seems an affair too simple and too inconsequential for gentlemen of our heroic mould; we had rather … Continue reading Life — Smilingly Unraveled
A Free Gardener
"The one small garden of a free gardener was his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command." — JRR Tolkien, The Return of the King
In Memoriam
Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove;Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute Thou madest Death; and lo, thy footIs on the skull which thou hast made.Thou wilt not … Continue reading In Memoriam
One Vast Need
Our whole being by its very nature is one vast need; incomplete, preparatory, empty yet cluttered, crying out for Him who can untie things that are now knotted together and tie up things that are still dangling loose.— CS Lewis, The Four Loves
Following A Star 