“Man’s sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases,”
― A Breath of Snow and Ashes
― A Breath of Snow and Ashes
“People, wake up, break your irons / Rise again to your former greatness / Liberty calls on you / You who were born for it.”
― Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition: A Comparative History
― Revolutions in the Atlantic World, New Edition: A Comparative History
“solitude was in its own way a balm for loneliness.”
― A Breath of Snow and Ashes
― A Breath of Snow and Ashes
“Amusing ourselves to death,” as the social critic Neil Postman called it, has never been more convenient.[3] You can disappear into the black hole of Netflix, become a workaholic in pursuit of riches or fame, or simply “eat, drink, and be merry” in the adult playground of the modern city. Western culture is arguably built around the denial of death through the coping mechanism of distraction. As Ronald Rolheiser put it, “We are distracting ourselves into spiritual oblivion.”[4]”
― Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.
― Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.
“The room was dark with rainlight, though, and the roof thrummed overhead. The sound of it seemed inside his blood, like the beat of the bodhrana inside the night, like the beat of his heart in the forest.”
― A Breath of Snow and Ashes
― A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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