"...[E]xtremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! " (Barry Goldwater, Acceptance Speech as the 1964 Republican Presidential candidate.)
"Freedom without structure is its own slavery." (David Brooks, The Social Animal, 58.)
"Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose. Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free." (Janis Joplin, "Me and Bobby McGee")
Yes. Also:
"Limen is the Latin word for threshold. A “liminal space” is the crucial in-between time—when everything actually happens and yet nothing appears to be happening. It is the waiting period when the cake bakes, the movement is made, the transformation takes place." and "... hope is the certainty that things finally have a victorious meaning no matter how they turn out." (Richard Rohr, online Daily Meditations, April 23, 2011.)
Yes, it is all true, isn't it? Do you feel the shifting paradigm of social awareness, as I do? A sense of standing on a threshold. An awareness of turmoil, of extremism of all sorts, of loss and yet the need for loss in order for change to occur. I reach for complexity to embrace wholeness. Complexity contained within the encircling embrace of a single, faithful, simple life.
No comments:
Post a Comment