Sunday, April 18, 2010

My Ambition

"His Master said to him, 'Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things...'" Matthew 25:21

Here is what I want from life: to do well with what I have. The only approachable goal is self-referential--that is, did I do all I had the potential to do? Anything more is an invitation to insanity.
And in humility, stripping the shards of non-self, we come to know ourselves.

Sound familiar?


Terrorism: The unlawful use or threat of violence esp. against the state or the public as a politically motivated means of attack or coercion

File:Joseph McCarthy.jpg

"I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department."

glenn beck
“Officials in and around this White House...[are] routinely praising radical leftists and Communist dictators and the wonders of socialism in spreading the wealth.”