Good Morning Digital Neighbors at Padre's, Rubin Report, Phetasy and Triggernometry! Up against a deadline for the morning bulletin, so this is another lazy two-for with the morning quote and the invitation to join the ADD Irregulars for Coffee talk.
Having patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly start remedying them—every day begin the task anew. - St. Francis de Sales
Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue. - George Horne
Patience - almost every part of the current chapter of human life in the West is geared against cultivating patience. The immediacy of modernity demands that we switch to the fast lane and pass all those slowing us down in the quest for NEXT. Armed with our life remote, yours may be in your hand as we chat, we need but push the screen or swipe away for the world at out fingertips. So few things take patience anymore IF it involves technology.
However outside of the mad culture of tech, things still move at a regular pace. More visits to the old school might open the door to cultivating patience, but more immersion in the tides of technology tends to do the opposite. Patience is a gift to ourselves and especially to others in our hurried world. It can do more to open the door to meaning, community, bonds of fellowship than all the promises of technology. We are not called to be luddites and forsake our glow-screens and portals beyond our home or office, but we want tech to serve us not enslave us. I guess tech is no different than the fire Prometheus first stole from the gods. It can enlighten us or consume us, handle with care.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion. - Jean de La Fontaine
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Time: Jan 25, 2022 06:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
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Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Quite apart from the fact that I utterly admire, even love, her, this is the best possible response to an idiot, who, in his defense, asked a pretty good question.
https://x.com/TBifford/status/2087992591279407133/video/1?s=61
The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
