Finding Vision

"Fuge, terche, et quisset" = silence, solitude and inner peace

Our mental traffic is often too busy, our emotions too turbulent and our desires too intense for us to hear what our hearts are really telling us. There seems to be a "conspiracy of noise" (Gordon MacDonald) that makes it difficult for us to tune in. Routinely finding times of silence and solitude will help us find that inner peace that comes through finding what we truly are to become and acting accordingly.

"Silence is not native to my world. Silence, more than likely, is a stranger to your world too. If you and I ever have silence in our noisy hearts, we are going to have to grow it....You can nurture silence in your noisy heart if you value it, cherish it, and are eager to nourish it." Wayne Oates

Pearls in Still Waters

"A life all turbulence and noise may seem
To him that leads it wise and to be praised,
But wisdom is a pearl with most success
Sought in still waters."
William Cowper

The Thinker

"The thinker is pre-eminently a person who sees where others do not. The novelty of what he says, it's character a sort of revelation, the charm that attaches to it, all comes from the fact that he sees. He seems to be head and shoulders above the crowd, or to be walking on the ridgeway while others trudge at the bottom. Independence is the word that describes the moral aspect of this capacity for vision." Ernest Dimnet

Old Age Sadness

"One of the saddest experiences is to awaken at old age and discover the one has been using only a small part of self" V W Burroughs

Finding Things

"If it were easy to find, it probably wouldn't be worth finding"