Mike King

Refuse to Die While You are Still Alive and Embrace the Beauty of Life.

"I don’t deny that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet."

From Manalive: A Novel by  G. K. Chesterton

No man is an island...

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less... Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” 

John Donne, Meditation XVII, 1624

Anselm

Meditate on this a while...

“God is greater than can be thought.” Anselm

Power and Love

"Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic." Martin Luther King Jr.

How do you interpret and apply this?

African Proverb

“If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together.”  African Proverb

                                                                                         

Tears

"Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it." Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

Easing back in...

I've been thinking about resuming my blog posting.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Living

"Finding ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."  Emily Dickinson

Breathing comes in pairs...

Breathing comes in pairs
Except for twice
One begins and one's goodbye

               from Enough for Now by The Fray

Merton Quote

'What do I fear most? To forget who I am, to be lost in what I am not.'

Thomas Merton, Journal 1966