from the mouth of gold

from:   De Lazaro Concio II


          


            “Not to share one’s wealth with the poor
                          is to steal from them
                       and to take away their livelihood.
                           It is not our own goods which we hold,
                                                   but theirs”.



                                             



                                                  st. john chrysostom





                                    in the recent apostolic exhortation of Francis I



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Veritably

 

 

 

 

 

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth, you know—they’ve got to be because a musical thing is a truth. If you play and make a statement, a musical statement, and it’s a valid statement, that’s a truth right there in itself, you know. If you play something phony you know that’s phony. All musicians are striving to get as near perfection as they can get. That’s truth there, you know. So in order to play those kind of things, to play truth, you’ve got to live with as much truth as you possibly can, you know.

 

 

`St. John Coltrane






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today's indictment

 I think

 that one of the mistakes

that we have made with so many problems —

 including drugs, poverty, illegal immigration, sexual conduct

that we don’t agree with —

is that there is a technocratic solution,

or even a one size fits all solution.

Alcohol is clearly bad and it’s addictive. It’s dangerous. Fine.

 Let’s prohibit alcohol.

Well, that didn’t work so well.

 And of course it didn’t stop people from doing

 the exact same thing with drugs

 and we’re just beginning to sense that

 maybe that’s not going to work so well either.

  It’s not working so well with immigration.

And we haven’t made a lot of progress with poverty either.

 And one of the reasons is that people talk about

some kind of objective solution.

 We throw a certain amount of money at the problem.

 If people are in bad housing projects,

let’s tear them down and put them into new housing projects.

 Maybe some of those things might have useful effects.

 Maybe not.

But they’ll only go a certain degree in addressing the problem.

 Because poverty is a state of being. It’s the way somebody feels.

And if somebody feels that he doesn’t have enough.

Maybe

 he has enough to eat, enough to sleep on, whatever.

 But he has so much less than the people around him

 that he feels humiliation and rage,

and yet

he’s above the minimal monetary standard for poverty,

let’s say,

 then what solution do we have for him?

  So it’s a problem

 like so many of these social problems

that involve communication skills

 and particularly require the ability to listen

and individualize on the part of the prospective benefactor.

  And that’s something that we’re not good at.

                                                                                   William T. Vollmann






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...

particle physics

              we come spinning out of nothingness,

                                                     scattering stars like dust






....Rumi

St. Teresa's Bookmark

              








                         Let nothing disturb you,
                                 Let nothing frighten you,
                 All things are passing;
                         God only is changeless.
          Patience gains all things.
                  Who has God wants nothing.
                           God alone suffices.




                                            Teresa of Avila







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the new meritocracy

in india....



          without going to jail,
             you cannot be a big politician
                                                                      -- Babban  Kumar





        perhaps we could switch to this method in place of election campaigns





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CANTICUM LAUDIS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The purpose

    of the Divine Office

         is to sanctify the day

                 and all human activity.”

“The Office is...

    the prayer 

         not only of the clergy

             but of the whole People of God.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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