"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Monday, September 3, 2012

Human Beings...


 
"We need to have a funeral for things in our lives that hold us back."
~ Catherine Barkley
 

 
Is it not better to care about who someone is and not what someone does? Does it not become irritating to be asked -what do you do or what are you doing or what are you going to do?  Why not ask, who are you - what energizes you - what makes you alive - what is your story - what has your journey been like?

Why not engage people like human beings and not human doings?

 
 
 
“The most important part of education: learning to discern a way of life worth living. But who is talking about that?”
~ Miroslav Volf
 
 
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