sabato, gennaio 16, 2016
mercoledì, gennaio 13, 2016
Die Wise
Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have
to be learned in the course of living deeply and well. Not a seven step
coping strategy, not an out-clause for trauma or sorrow, Die Wise is
for everyone who, hell or high water, is not going to pull off eternity
after all. Dying is not the end of wisdom and wisdom not exhausted by
dying. Dying could be and must be the fullest expression and incarnation
of what you’ve learned by living. It’s a moral obligation to die well.
If you love somebody, if you care about the world that’s to come after
you, if you want somebody to be spared the lunacy of what you’ve seen,
you’ve got to die wise.
Orphan Wisdom
mercoledì, gennaio 06, 2016
lunedì, gennaio 04, 2016
domenica, gennaio 03, 2016
Tolkien
The Gospel contains a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which
embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. They contain many
marvels—peculiarly artistic, beautiful, and moving: ‘mythical’ in their
perfect, self-contained significance; and among the marvels is the
greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe. But this story has
entered History and the primary world; the desire and aspiration of
sub-creation has been raised to the fulfillment of Creation. The Birth
of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man’s history. The Resurrection is the
eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. . . . To reject it leads
either to sadness or to wrath.
Tolkien, “On Fairy-Stories,” 155-56
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