Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. | |
Not to speak is to speak. | |
Not to act is to act. | |
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer | |
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2020 | Fact Check: Presidential Memories |
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2018 | Either / Or |
2017 | Redemptive Power |
2016 | On Calls To Renew Waterboarding / Torture |
2015 | Still Struggling |
2014 | How To Become A Saint |
2013 | Not Much Change |
Our Biggest Fear | |
2012 | Brain, n. |
2011 | Styles Of Leadership |
2010 | Face Front! |
Posts Tagged ‘Silence’
6/1 Capitol Riot Commission
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged 6/1 Capitol Riot Commission, Acting, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Evil, God, Guilt, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Silence, Speaking on July 23, 2021| Leave a Comment »
The Silent Word
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Creation, Infinity, Navarre Scott Momaday, Philosophy, Quotes, Silence, Stars, Word on January 30, 2021| Leave a Comment »
There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it. | ||
— Navarre Scott Momaday | ||
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On This Day In: | ||
2020 | Releasing Their Fears | |
2019 | 17 Days Until The Next Government Shutdown | |
2018 | Disciplined Models | |
2017 | We Cannot Afford Enemies | |
2016 | Love Is Just A State Of Mind | |
2015 | Waiting? | |
2014 | Big C, Little B (II) | |
Where God Has Not | ||
2013 | Chasing His Dragon | |
Shaped And Molded | ||
2012 | Believe In Yourself | |
2011 | Cultural Equivalence | |
Why Not? | ||
Books About Books | ||
The Basis For Adult Continuing Education | ||
Sometimes Just Being There Is Enough
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Bereavement, Confusion, Curing, Despair, Friendship, Grief, Healing, Henri J. Nouwen, Philosophy, Quotes, Silence on November 22, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing. . . not healing, not curing . . . that is a friend who cares. | |
— Henri J. Nouwen | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Or Live For It |
2018 | Happy Thanksgiving (2018) |
2017 | Grateful Humility |
2016 | Obstacles |
Election + 2 Weeks | |
2015 | Done What You Could |
2014 | Impossible To Other Men |
2013 | Just In Case |
2012 | Isn’t This Just Pleasant? |
2011 | No Void In Sight |
Insensitive To Silence
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Language, Navarre Scott Momaday, Philosophy, Quotes, Silence, Writing on August 17, 2020| 3 Comments »
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence. | |
— Navarre Scott Momaday | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Judging Success |
2018 | Something Else |
Day 21: 10% Loss | |
2017 | Courage |
2016 | Don’t H8! — I’m With Her!! |
2015 | $20 Anyone? |
2014 | And Yet I Still Study |
2013 | Use Your Own |
2012 | Strengthen Freedom |
2011 | Attrition = A Lack Of Imagination |
2010 | Mind The Fire, Love |
Just Beyond My Reach… | |
Even A Life Of Quiet Desperation! | |
Acts Of Courage | |
#45: Diarrhea Of The Mouth, Constipation Of The Brain
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged #IdiotInChief, #IncompetentDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Silence on August 9, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Either be silent or say things that are worth more than silence. | |
— Leo Tolstoy | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Four Buffett’s |
2018 | Change Happens |
Day 13: Ginger / Mint Relief | |
2017 | Still Removing Bricks |
2016 | Namaste |
2015 | Still Learning |
2014 | Dark Processes |
2013 | To The Last Link |
2012 | Slept In Again |
2011 | Home Again, Naturally |
2009 | Thoughts after a long day of OT… |
Insensitive To Silence
Posted in Quotes, tagged False Security, Language, Navarre Scott Momaday, Quotes, Silence, Words, Writing on May 9, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store vast quantities of words indefinitely. This is advantageous on the one hand but dangerous on the other. The result is that we have developed a kind of false security where language is concerned, and our sensitivity to language has deteriorated. And we have become in proportion insensitive to silence. | |
— N. Scott Momaday | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Don’t Be Small |
2018 | Persistence |
2017 | Are You A Loser? |
2016 | Constitution And Conscience |
2015 | Separate, Fearful And Imprisoned |
2014 | Something Worth Making |
2013 | Absolutely |
2012 | Can Do |
2011 | Wise Criticism |
In Silence
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, Silence, Thomas Merton, Waiting on October 18, 2019| Leave a Comment »
The contemplative waits in silence and when he is ‘answered’, it is not so much by a word that bursts into his silence. It is by this silence itself suddenly, inexplicably, revealing itself to him as a word of great power. | |
— Thomas Merton | |
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2018 | A Gift |
2017 | Unless You Genuinely Are Small |
2016 | B1 |
2015 | Five Things |
2014 | Have Faith |
2013 | Found In A Mine |
2012 | Two-Sided Coin |
2011 | Passionately Scorned Rules |
Speak Up / Call Out
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Free Speech, Martin Luther King Jr, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Silence on July 27, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter. | |
— Martin Luther King Jr. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Does Smiling Count? |
2017 | Giving Much |
2016 | Sounds Like Class |
2015 | Inert Ideas |
2014 | Worth Anything? |
2013 | Bruises Before Bed (Or Why You Didn’t Answer) |
Revealed Riches | |
2012 | Extra Gears |
2011 | Say What? |
2010 | Hello Frogs… |
Silent Purpose
Posted in Quotes, tagged Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Life, Philosophy, Purpose, Quotes, Silence on June 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. | |
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Just Bake The Cake, Man |
2017 | Visible Proof |
2016 | Poor Enough Means |
2015 | Still Standing |
Follow Your Heart | |
2014 | Just Reminded |
2013 | A Fine Balance |
2012 | One Measure |
2011 | Seeking The Common Ground |
In Brightest Day… | |
Prepare For The 2020 Election
Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Martin Luther King Jr, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Silence on June 18, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. | |
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Why #45 Is Uncivil And Sinking |
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2017 | Go Where? |
2016 | Returning To The Same Box |
2015 | The Hunter’s Music |
2014 | Dedication |
2013 | Unhappy Alternatives |
2012 | Implications |
2011 | Never Let Us Down |
Of Course, You Still Have To Listen
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Hermits, Philosophy, Quotes, Silence, Solitude, The Deeper Voice, Thomas Merton on April 20, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally. | |
— Thomas Merton | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Coming Home |
2017 | It’s Just Around The Bend |
2016 | In What Direction? |
2015 | Embarrassing Myself Again |
2014 | I’ve Never Have Had |
2013 | Glory Days (part 1) |
2012 | Feeling Old? |
2011 | Even When I Wish Really, Really Hard |
Skeptical Fathers | |
Cha-cha-cha-changes | |
Quiet, Please!
Posted in Environment, Quotes, tagged Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Environment, Memory, Quotes, Silence on April 19, 2019| 5 Comments »
A loss of silence is as serious as a loss of memory and just as disorienting. Silence is, after all, the natural context from which we listen. Silence is also the natural context from which we speak. | |
— Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2018 | Heavy On The Starch |
2017 | But The Beginning Of What? |
2016 | Today’s Rule |
2015 | Remembering Oklahoma City |
2014 | Who Was That Masked Man? |
2013 | Enemy Mine |
2012 | Strengthen Me |
2011 | Service, Please |
2010 | The Church In Crisis… |
#ContinueToResist
Posted in History, Politics, Quotes, tagged #ContinueToResist, #Resist, 2020 Census, Anyone But Trump, Citizens United, Cowards, Dark Money, Electoral College, History, Paul Ryan, Politics, President Abraham Lincoln, Protest, Reapportionment, Republicans, Rust Belt, Silence, Sin, South Carolina, Speaker of the House on January 21, 2019| Leave a Comment »
To sin by silence when they should protest, makes cowards of human beings. | |
— Abraham Lincoln | |
[It is vitally important to continue resisting the programs of President Trump and the Republican Senate. It is equally important to support the Democratic control of the House of Representatives. Remember, if there is no clear election in the Electoral College in 2020, the decision of who will be the next President will fall to the House of Representatives. I believe this is what the Republicans were actually hoping for when the “Anyone but Trump” Republican movement went silent. They didn’t have to get Trump elected President in the popular vote. The Republicans only had to tie up the Electoral College. In which case, Paul Ryan most probably would have been “elected” President. One: he was the Republican VP nominee in the prior election (2012). Normally, when the ticket fails, the VP choice is the next one in line to be put forward. And, two: Ryan was the Speaker of the House, which means he was already the “prime” person to be elevated from the House to the Oval Office. When (in 2016) Florida went to the Republicans and the House was retained by the Republicans, they only needed one of the Rust Belt states and South Carolina to stop Clinton, irrespective of her national popular vote count. The same conditions will be true in 2020, if the Republicans can somehow flip the House back to their control. | |
Added to that (final control of the Presidential election), the House also has primary responsibility for seat reapportionment after the 2020 census. If Republicans flip control back (to themselves) they will use even more gerrymandering to reduce the value of the popular vote. (Of course, this presumes the Republicans retain control of the majority of the State Houses, too. Since they control 32 States to the Dems 14, it seems likely they will.) Don’t misinterpret me. The Democratic Party will also gerrymander, but they “generally” do so to increase the value of the popular vote. They (the Democrats) “only” do this because the demographics of the future favor the the Democratic Party. Basically, older (mostly white male) voters are dying and the younger voters (across all genders, ethnic breakdown, income and education levels) replacing them on the voting roles are trending to the Democratic Party. And without newer ideas, the Conservative / Republican Party will continue to wither away. IMHO: It is only “Dark Money” and the Citizens United decision which have propped the Republican Party up this far. | |
A word to the wise should suffice… Stay engaged locally. #Resist — KMAB] | |
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2018 | More Executive Time For #DumbDonald |
2017 | Watched The Inauguration |
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2016 | Come Dance And Laugh With Me |
2015 | Looks Good To Me |
2014 | Desire For The Sea |
2013 | The Fierce Urgency Of NOW |
Happy Inauguration Day! | |
2012 | One Path |
Sorrow And Joy | |
The Seven Year View | |
2011 | Emergent Practicality |
Silence Presence
Posted in Faith, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Philosophy, Pico Iyer, Quotes, Silence on September 18, 2018| 2 Comments »
We have to earn silence . . . to work for it; to make it not an absence but a presence; not emptiness but repletion. Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. | |
— Pico Iyer | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Feeling Small Standing In Front Of My Shelves |
2016 | Show Willing |
2015 | If He Only Knew… |
2014 | Dared To Love |
2013 | Strong Kung-Fu |
2012 | Two Tribes |
2011 | Made Any Assumptions Lately? |
Instinct For Presence
Posted in Other Blogs, Quotes, tagged Anne D. LeClaire, http://upwardbound.me/, Other Blogs, Quotes, Silence on April 22, 2018| 1 Comment »
Our spirit has an instinct for silence. | |
Every soul innately yearns for stillness, | |
for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, | |
and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. | |
Silence is not an absence but a presence. | |
Not an emptiness but repletion. | |
A filling up. | |
— Anne D. LeClaire | |
Found at one of the blogs I follow: http://upwardbound.me/ | |
The specific link is: http://upwardbound.me/2016/09/09/our-spirit-has-an-instinct-for-silence/ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Hard Enough |
2016 | Jumps |
2015 | One View Of Failure |
2014 | We Speak For Earth |
2013 | Inward Urgency |
2012 | Delayed Reviews |
Fulfilling My Duty | |
2011 | Interference |