Friday, August 28, 2009

August 28: Journeying with Kazantzakis

Today was low key. I didn't travel too far on the web or on the page. But I did find some new things, and they are below. The best, and the one to spend some time with, is the passage from Kazantzakis. I'm reading his text, Journeying. More to come in the days that follow. So, for today:

crookedbrains.net

Headlines from the New York Times:
"US-Afghan Relations Strained Over Election"
"Ahmadinijad Urges Prosectuion of Political Rivals"

imaginationcubed.com
liveplasma.com

A quote from the Bhagavad Gita - "Bring your mind back every time it wanders away."
And from Buddha - "All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

goodwincreekgardens.com
shopadam.com
daubandbauble.com
terrakeramik.com
spoonsisters.com
roseandradish.com
zindelceramics.com
pancakeandfranks.com

From Journeying by Kazantzakis. His essay titled "Saint Francis"
"He preaches: 'The supreme virtue is poverty.' This widow of Christ, rejected by every home, wandered streets, scorned, and no one wanted her. And Francis loved her and took her for his wife. Poverty, obedience and chastity; behold the three great Franciscan virtues.
If these three virtues had prevailed, if everyone had become Franciscans, the world would be lost. If, again, Francis had preached more practical ideas, his preaching would not have the madness that alone can transport and save men's souls. The ideal, if it wants to renew the face of the earth, must stand much higher than the power of men. In this rests its secret strength, the pull, the painful straining of the soul to reach it, that formidable lifting upward that enlarges the stature of man."

Until tomorrow.