ecstasy

is it not like a little child

riding a wooden horse

being a steepled knight

bursting about with play

with wild Exuberance

in-joying in and out

shouting, "Look, Daddy, look"

while the laughter flies

and smiles stretch with glee

with the generations of saints

who know that Candor swells

and the soul-bells peal

in the presence of God

ever present to each hair

ever laughing like a child?

*Live the lie you love the most.

  -recovery addict

*Self-definition is the highest form of integrity.

  -Chris Al-Aswad

*Instead of prostrating ourselves before the future, we should give our own experience its due.

  -Elizabeth Gumport

*People will have a better future if they unbridle their tongues.  When they set themselves free from the slavery of silence, their grievances will be heard.

  -Brahim El-Guabli

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -Christian language, as soon as it moves away from experience and is no longer verified by it, becomes elastic, full of distortions and quibbles, concerned with syntheses and false harmony.  When we embroider emptiness with strict formulas, we have the very opposite of a language of hope.

  -The fundamental sin is not to live ones life fully but to identify it with mental representations. 

  -One cannot tame love and make it obligatory for the greater good of others.