"Being joyful is a choice."

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Source : "Jonathan Jackson: On Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Genuine Prayer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

Jonathan Jackson

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“I do believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family -- whether it's from an intruder, or whether it's from a government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important.”

Source : "Ann Coulter talks gutter politics in midterm races". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2014.
“I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.”
“If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".”
“Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.”
“Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.”
“You know, that's what I've regretted the most, that joy. Of course, later there were times when I felt happy, but happiness is to joy what an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason; it's like the sun- its burning is fueled by its own heart.”
“The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.”

Source : Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.248, New Directions Publishing
“Every man who steeps himself in the spiritual possibilities of his heart is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.”

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