Beauty

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

LEO TOLSTOY, The Kreutzer Sonata

The Beginning of Love

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”

Thomas Merton

Where's it coming from?

Whatever is done out of fullness increases fullness and whatever is done out of emptiness increases emptiness.

Greg Boyd
Twitter may 2011

Source of Happiness

The most dependable sources of happiness are those that lie at "the intersection of pleasure and meaning"

Tal Ben-Shahar

Suffering and Imagination

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.


Rob Bell

God's Plans

It's not that everything happens as part of God's plan, but the infinitely wise God has a plan for everything that happens.


Gregory Boyd - Twitter Feed - Feb. 2011

People

"When we begin to view people as ideology-carriers rather than human beings, we begin to travel a dark road."

John Ortberg (from his Blog - January 2011)