Sunbeams
To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from going down on one’s knees and thanking him.
To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from going down on one’s knees and thanking him.
Man with wooden leg escapes prison. He’s caught. They take his wooden leg away from him. Each day he must cross a large hill and swim a wide river to get to the field where he must work all day on one leg. This goes on for a year. At the Christmas party they give him back his leg. Now he doesn’t want it. His escape is all planned. lt requires only one leg.
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Transcendence or detachment, leaving the body, pure love, lack of jealousy - that’s the vision we are given in our culture, generally, when we think of the highest thing. . . . Another way to look at it is that the aim of the person is not to be detached, but to be more attached — to be attached to working; to be attached to making chairs or something that helps everyone; to be attached to beauty; to be attached to music.
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
The friend does not count his friends on his fingers; they are not numerable.
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
That sudden and ill-timed love affair may be compared to this: you take boys somewhere for a walk; the walk is jolly and interesting — and suddenly one of them gorges himself with oil paint.