Status Updates From King of the Castle: Choice ...

'It is from a man's choice between sleeping and waking or between drifting with the tide and making his way upstream that the pattern of his destiny is built up. Here we stand, as creatures made for choosing, and we do not know, until the veils are lifted, how much depended on our choice.'

'It is from a man's choice between sleeping and waking or between drifting with the tide and making his way upstream that the pattern of his destiny is built up. Here we stand, as creatures made for choosing, and we do not know, until the veils are lifted, how much depended on our choice.'

'Every day is a good day to begin this work, but everyday provides its crop of reasons for delay and hesitation - we are busy, we have problems -and time passes. We behave, many of us, like senile old people who, when the house is on fire, mumble over small possessions, fuss and natter, while their end roars all about their ears.'

'The taking of refuge is from an imperfect world in which even heavenly fruit is worm-eaten and from a selfhood pitted and riddled with the same imperfection; and in this world the man who depends on his own strength, the self-reliant man, is inevitably a pathetic figure.'

'Those who regard as absurd the notion that a man could deserve supernatural punishment for some apparently trivial sin are right, so long as the situation is defined in this way. But it is not the sin that is punished, It is the profound inner warping which betrayed itself through this sin that stand revealed when time and obscurity are brought to an end.'

'Squatting in this place, this little pool, and hungry for certainties, people hold on with a kind of desperation to the current notion of what is (or what is not) 'rational'; and yet, 'the rationalism of a frog at the bottom of a well consists in denying the existance of mountains'; this is logic of a kind perhaps, but it has nothing to do with reality.'

'We do not need to seek occassions for action; they come to us, welcome or unwelcome, and their coming is a sufficient sign that they are our business.'