Signposts » Southwest http://signposts.cowpi.com Words pointing… Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:22:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 And I saw the River… http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/and-i-saw-the-river http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/and-i-saw-the-river#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:49:39 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=476 And I saw the River
over which every soul must pass
to reach the Kingdom of Heaven,
and the name of the River was SUFFERING…
and I saw the Boat which carries souls across the River,
and the name of that Boat was…LOVE.

— St. John of the Cross  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/and-i-saw-the-river/feed 0 Responding to a word that is not well defined… http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/responding-to-a-word-that-is-not-well-defined http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/responding-to-a-word-that-is-not-well-defined#comments Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:21:24 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=475 Actually one decides one’s life by responding to a word that is not well defined, easily explicable, safely accounted for. One decides to love in the face of an unaccountable void, and from the void comes an unaccountable truth. By this truth one’s existence is sustained in peace—until the truth is too firmly grasped and too clearly accounted for. Then one is relying on words—i.e., on his own understanding and his own ingenuity in interpreting existence and its “signs.” Then one is lost—has to be found once again in the patient Void.

— Thomas Merton, Learning to Love  <link>

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To love at all is to be vulnerable… If you want to make sure of keeping your heart intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket of your selfishness. But in that casket—safe, dark, motionless, airless—it will change. It will not be broken—it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable… The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from love is Hell.

— C.S. Lewis  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/to-love-at-all/feed 0 The devil will try to upset you by… http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/the-devil-will-try-to-upset-you-by http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/the-devil-will-try-to-upset-you-by#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:03:30 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=473 The devil will try to upset you by accusing you of being unworthy of the blessings that you have received. Simply remain cheerful and do your best to ignore the devil’s nagging. If need be even laugh at the absurdity of the situation. Satan, the epitome of sin, accuses you of unworthiness! When the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future!

— St. Teresa of Avila  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/the-devil-will-try-to-upset-you-by/feed 0 Culture breeds and fosters the individual in his uniqueness and yet… http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/culture-breeds-and-fosters-the-individual-in-his-uniqueness-and-yet http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/culture-breeds-and-fosters-the-individual-in-his-uniqueness-and-yet#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:54:35 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=472 Culture breeds and fosters the individual in his uniqueness and yet the individual feels cramped through participating in his culture. Strange, how culture itself brings in us the consciousness of being dissatisfied with it.

— S.N. Ganguly, “Culture, Communication and Silence”  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/culture-breeds-and-fosters-the-individual-in-his-uniqueness-and-yet/feed 0 Silence is the limit of our world of description or language http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/silence-is-the-limit-of-our-world-of-description-or-language http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/silence-is-the-limit-of-our-world-of-description-or-language#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:51:09 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=471 Silence is the limit of our world of description or language. Silence is silence and completely different from any kind of language.

— S.N. Ganguly  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/silence-is-the-limit-of-our-world-of-description-or-language/feed 0 Silence exists so that we might… http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/silence-exists-so-that-we-might http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/silence-exists-so-that-we-might#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:30:01 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=470 Silence exists so that we might speak to God. And it is in silence that God communicates His graces to us.

— St. Vincent de Paul  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/silence-exists-so-that-we-might/feed 0 A virtuous life is simply impossible without… http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/a-virtuous-life-is-simply-impossible-without http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/a-virtuous-life-is-simply-impossible-without#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:27:09 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=469 A virtuous life is simply impossible without the aid of prayer.

— St. John Chrysostom  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/a-virtuous-life-is-simply-impossible-without/feed 0 Never forget what Jesus did for you… http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/never-forget-what-jesus-did-for-you http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/never-forget-what-jesus-did-for-you#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:20:10 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=467 Never forget what Jesus did for you. Never take lightly what it cost Him. And never assume that if it cost Him His very life, that it won’t also cost you yours.

— Rich Mullins  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/never-forget-what-jesus-did-for-you/feed 0 The Beauty of Creation http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/the-beauty-of-creation http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/the-beauty-of-creation#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:16:13 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=466 The Beauty of Creation

In general, every time you feel in God’s creatures something pleasing and attractive, do not let your attention be arrested by them alone, but, passing them by, transfer your thought to God and say: “O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy art thou thyself, Creator of all!”

— Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/the-beauty-of-creation/feed 0 Little things are… http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/little-things-are http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/little-things-are#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:03:39 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=465 Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.

— Blessed Teresa of Calcutta  <link>

]]> http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/little-things-are/feed 0 Everything has its wonders… http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/everything-has-its-wonders http://signposts.cowpi.com/southwest/everything-has-its-wonders#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:42:57 +0000 CowPi http://signposts.cowpi.com/?p=464 Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

— Helen Keller  <link>

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