a pensieve
in a world where so much is right but so much is wrongvery free but no mood to write yet
so just dropping in with another clarifying quote stolen off yet another friend’s blog:
“I think today the world is upside down… Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents, parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the destruction of the peace of the world.” – Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
on point.
today when i told a friend i want inspiration, he gave me this quote:
“You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Perhaps you do carry within you the possibility of creating and forming, as an especially blessed and pure way of living; train yourself for that—but take whatever comes, with great trust, and as long as it comes out of your will, out of some need of your innermost self, then take it upon yourself, and don’t hate anything.”
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
studying evidence
makes me want to pray VERY hard for all prisoners who have been wrongly convicted.
And you asked me what I want this year
and I try to make this kind and clear
just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days
’cause I don’t need boxes wrapped in strings
and designer love and empty things
just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days
So take these words and sing out loud
’cause everyone is forgiven now
’cause tonight’s the night the world begins again
I need some place simple where we could live
and something only you can give
and that’s faith and trust and peace while we’re alive
and the one poor child who saved this world
and there’s ten million more who probably could
if we all just stopped and said a prayer for them
So take these words and sing out loud
’cause everyone is forgiven now
’cause tonight’s the night the world begins again
I wish everyone was loved tonight
and somehow stop this endless fight
just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days
So take these words and sing out loud
’cause everyone is forgiven now
’cause tonight’s the night the world begins again
’cause tonight’s the night the world begins again
blogsurfing coz admiralty procedure is boring.
excerpts from friend’s blogs:
“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.” – Saint Augustine
“…i suddenly saw us…as wanderers. struggling to find our way through life, not knowing what to expect, trying hard to reconcile realities and expectations. doing our best so.
it makes one realize that sometimes we aren’t really that lost in life, perhaps it just hadn’t occured to us that we’re merely wandering around in search of that bit of inspiration and positivity. and no, certainly, not hopelessly lost.”
P.S. i hope you guys don’t mind me borrowing your stuffs, in the hope that it may inspire others as it inspired me. if y’all object lemme know i’ll take it off immediately! 
textbook editor not doing his job
examples of sentences (okay part of a sentence) that totally undermine a textbook writer’s credibility as regards his ability to write:
“…should not be regarded as having reversed the judicial trend of not condemning an arresting party to damages simply because his claim does not appear, at first blush, to be indefensible.”
i.e. should not stand for the proposition that the arrest was wrongful merely because there is a valid defence to the plaintiff’s claim.
you’re the inspiration
i really feel very very blessed to have so many good people for inspiration in my life. i have inspiration for loving, for living, for forgiving, for letting go, for waiting, and for believing.
(it is a sign of my diligence in studying admiralty that i feel like putting footnotes after every one of these traits and footnoting the person’s name.)
