Perpendicular Ponderings

Perpendicular (because all of my life thoughts are either vertical and toward God or horizontal and toward fellow humanity and the earth).

[unlikelykingdomphilosopher]

[hattiebgood]

God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go! This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?”

~From Romans

[revolutionoftenderness]

“Look around you — the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are foolish and we don’t understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.”

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

[Umegawa in Sagami province - Katsushika Hokusai]

#hokusai #dostoevsky #nature #beauty #sin #cranes #mtfuji #heaven #embrace

[pabulumblog]

“While it is always possible to wake a person who’s sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”

— Jonathan Safron Foer, Eating Animals 

[naturaekos]

““You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved.””

—

[thecalminside]

“If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial.

If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked.

If you want to become full, let yourself be empty.

If you want to be reborn, let yourself die.

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.”

Lao Tzu

[socialistsquirrel]

[revolutionaryeye]

Michael Foot was kind of the Corbyn of his time

[revolutionoftenderness]

"Our age has been taught to believe in nothing higher than the human mind, and in the ideas of that mind; that is why the conflicts of our day are ‘ideological,’ and why Truth is not in them. For Truth is only in living communion with living Truth, Christ; apart from Him there is no life, no Truth.”

~ Fr. Seraphim Rose

[artwork from the catacombs]

[purplesmartass]

Ever seeing this I made a wake-up playlist with a bunch of heavy bass drop music because gotta make those slow brainwaves Go Fast

[whitepeopletwitter]

[olivesawl]

If you’re the kind of person who would do that, you never become Bezos in the first place.

My Dad owned a business my whole life. It was profitable, but it didn’t expand. I ask him once why he never grew it, and he said it’s nearly impossible without climbing on someone’s back–your vendors, your customers, your employees. Particularly that last one. You don’t wait until your business is big to be a good human being. The very first time you have to choose between your own profit and your employees health insurance, you choose the later. You give maternity leave even though the government doesn’t make you. You dock your own salary to not lay people off during a recession. You have adequate staffing and reliable hours. Anybody who says you can’t run a retail business on a normal, reasonable, predictable schedule you know in advance is full of shit. My Dad did it for 35 years (always have one more person than you think you need, and 98% of your staffing problems vanish). It’s just not maximum profit. If you don’t prioritize extracting profit from every corner of your business, you never become rich enough to give billions away. 

(One of the things my father is proud of is that by the time he retired they hadn’t needed to take a help wanted ad in 30 years. Turnover was low, and when a spot opened, referrals filled it.)

[mauriacs]

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”

— J. M. Barrie, 1922

[quotemadness]

“Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.”

— Haruki Murakami

[quotemadness]

“Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.”

— Peter V. Brett

[haleyincarnate]

Quote by Zahraa Surtee

[naturaekos]

“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about ever again. But you do.”

— C.S. Lewis, The Wonder Years (via minuty)

[zenwords]

11 Compliments That Aren’t About Physical Appearance

You light up the room

I like your voice

You inspire me

I love how passionate you are

You make the world a better place

You’re one of the bravest people I know

You make me comfortable to be myself

You’re an incredible friend

You have a really refreshing perspective

You are so smart

You are truly making a difference

— sossafetymag

[naturaekos]

“In every end, there is also a beginning.”

— Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty (via amortizing)