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“It is both a blessing
And a curse
To feel everything
So very deeply.”
― David Jones

“Loving you was the most exquisite form of self destruction”
― David Jones

“Those eyes of yours
Could swallow stars,
Galaxies and universes.

What hope did I
Ever have?”
― David Jones

“For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.”
― David Jones, In Parenthesis

“But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.”
― David Jones, In Parenthesis

“The problem is I do not want to forget. Despite all the pain, The hurt, I still want To remember you.   I still want my heart To beat to the sound Of your name.”
― David Jones, Love As The Stars Went Out

“He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.”
― David Jones, In Parenthesis

“They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.”
― David Jones, In Parenthesis

“The monsters in
My head always knew
That I would
Lose you in
The end”
― David Jones, Love And Space Dust

“...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.”
― David Jones, In Parenthesis

“As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.”
― David Jones, In Parenthesis

“Each of us has a certain ministry to perform, and we will each have to answer to God for what we have done with that gift. What have you done with the talents God has given you?”
― David Jones, They Thought They Had More Time: I Saw the Day of the Lord

“glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee (Titus 2:11-15).”
― David Jones, They Thought They Had More Time: I Saw the Day of the Lord

“But it isn't healthy to try to live sombody else's life for too long”
― David Jones

“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the”
― David Jones, They Thought They Had More Time: I Saw the Day of the Lord

“you just stay in the will of God and things will work out. If God doesn’t tell you anything in particular to do, then don’t do anything. Just wait on Him.”
― David Jones, They Thought They Had More Time: I Saw the Day of the Lord

“The Daoist concept wuwei, which means literally nonaction, but carries connotations of spontaneous, natural, and nonassertive or nondirected action, emphasizes the orderly becoming of the world; it reflects the natural, unconscious, and nondirected action within an anti-teleological process model of the world to which Laozi, the mythical author of the Daodejing, or the Classic of the Power of the Way (also known as the Laozi), refers. The flow of the world (proceeding out of its seamless structure) is Dao in action, or "way-making." The shaping of Dao then is understood as wuwei: in its self-organizing fashion, Dao "really does things non-coercively, yet everything gets done," and "Were the nobles and kings able to respect this, All things (wanwu) would be able to develop along their own lines.”
― David Jones, The Fractal Self: Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation

“which”
― David Jones, Mastering the Art of Photography Composition: Learn Tips and Tricks for Better Creative Photos for Beginners and Intermediate Photographers

“take a look at the photo below. It’s dominated by several horizontal lines,”
― David Jones, Mastering the Art of Photography Composition: Learn Tips and Tricks for Better Creative Photos for Beginners and Intermediate Photographers

“Fear not them which destroy the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell (Matt. 10:28 KJV). We should all truly love God, fear God, and be prepared to meet Him when our time comes to leave this earth and stand before Him to give an account. We never really know when our time will come to leave this life. Let’s make sure we’re ready!”
― David Jones, They Thought They Had More Time: I Saw the Day of the Lord

“Furthermore, we suggest a fractal self is capable of growth and a kind of metamorphosis. Daoists refer to a seasoned human cooperator and facilitator, working adroitly, with a natural ease in the smooth, orderly, adaptive spirit of wuwei, as a sage. Such an individual is typically embedded in a particular affinitive complex system. An affinitive system is virtually anything in nature or human endeavor that is avidly sought by an individual in pursuit of vocation or avocation-a business, social, educational, artistic, scientific, or governmental enterprise, and so forth. Such systems typically develop chaotic structures and behaviors; envisioned as geometrical forms, they often constitute complicated attractors; around the edges of their coherent existence they would tend to be fractally organized, transcending classic dimensionality (see introduction). The sage tends to develop into a leader or catalyst within his or her affinitive system as he or she progressively "evolves" over time into increasing levels of intimacy and coherence with the system.”
― David Jones, The Fractal Self: Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation

“In contrast, vertical lines convey power, strength and growth (more on this will be discussed in the next chapter). Including vertical lines within a photo can disrupts the peacefulness that horizontal lines convey.”
― David Jones, Mastering the Art of Photography Composition: Learn Tips and Tricks for Better Creative Photos for Beginners and Intermediate Photographers

“Son of man, the people of Israel are saying, “He’s talking about the distant future. His visions won’t come true for a long, long time.” Therefore, tell them, “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: No more delay! I will now do everything I have threatened. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!” (Ezekiel 12:27-28 NLT)”
― David Jones, They Thought They Had More Time: I Saw the Day of the Lord

“Who could have imagined that Death would prove to be such a dependable friend? A true friend, even, amongst all the uncertainty of life”
― David Jones

“Metaphorically, Daoism anticipates something like the butterfly effect.

Way-making (dao) gives rise to continuity,
Continuity gives rise to difference,
Difference to plurality,
And plurality gives rise to the manifold of everything that is happening (wanwu)

In Chinese thought, this transformation is called Dahua, the great transformation, a principle that seems to express glimpses of universal evolution.”
― David Jones, The Fractal Self: Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation

“Thus wuwei manifests itself in the adaptive integration of the interacting parts of units of a complex system. The tendency of wuwei is to lead a system toward a state of fractal congruence, a close fitting together, a coalescing, of its significant components. The cooperation of those components facilitates the functioning of the system on its new holistic level. At the highest levels of complexity, wuwei integrates human beings into the systems of the world. This process of integration represents a synergistic enhancement of Dao by empathic human participants in cooperation with nature and with the outgrowths of human nature that have emerged from our evolutionary history and constitute culture. Thus, a fractal self is such a human being who is a participant with others, open to various worlds within nature and culture, and this person becomes a potential facilitator of emergence.”
― David Jones, The Fractal Self: Science, Philosophy, and the Evolution of Human Cooperation

“The key to creating the best out of focus foreground framed photos is to use a small f-stop number (also known as a larger aperture.)”
― David Jones, Mastering the Art of Photography Composition: Learn Tips and Tricks for Better Creative Photos for Beginners and Intermediate Photographers

“Loving you was the most exquisite form of self destruction.”
― David Jones

“Why did I write this? " Although I desire that all kinds of readers enjoy my novel, my deepest wish is that it finds those readers that really need it. In a way like when I re-read The Outsiders countless times during reading time in the fourth grade or when I read Kerouac’s book is in high school.”
― David Jones

“Jesus spoke of false christs and false prophets, of wars and rumors of wars, of famines, pestilences, and earthquakes “in many parts of the world” (Matt. 24:7 NLT). “All these,” He said, “are the beginning of sorrows” (Matt. 24:8 KJV). He also spoke of widespread and pervasive persecution of the saints. He then said something surprising, “And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another” (Matt. 24:10 KJV).”
― David Jones, They Thought They Had More Time: I Saw the Day of the Lord