"This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way."

-- Eugene H. Peterson

#Morning Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Israel Quotes

“Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the human dilemma at the same time that it ignites our desire to break out of it.”

Source : Philip Kapleau (1997). “Awakening to Zen: The Teachings of Roshi Philip Kapleau”, Scribner Book Company
“A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has.”
“The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.”
“Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated.”

Source : "Economic Control of Quality of Manufactured Product". Book by Walter A. Shewhart, p. 8, 1931.
“Some people are more experimental in bed and others are more boring. If you are wild and crazy, bring it on so the other person is well aware that you have little devil horns that come out every once in a while. It's good to make an effort to dress up sometimes, to do things outside of the norm.”
“Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.”
“I think that power comes in numbers, and we're in an industry where the actors need to have a bigger voice.”
“We should never lower our dignity by lowering our language.”

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