Lining Up to Purpose

The more aligned you are to your purpose, the more energy, the more remarkable qualities you bring to the moments of your life.
Roger Fransecky

The Triumph

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken

The Size of a Man

A man is only as big as what makes him mad.

Direction

Love is the compass of life.

Measuring Character

The measure of a person’s character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.

The Brain: Complex Beyond Belief

The human brain has more switches than all the computers and routers and Internet connections on Earth. And for the first time, researchers are getting a peek at what they do. Even though the brain’s synapses are less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter, scientists at Stanford have pieced together pictures of one to create a three-dimensional image (see the video below). The senior author of the paper explaining the study, Stephen Smith, says the brain's complexity is beyond anything they'd imagined, almost “beyond belief.” The brain has hundreds of trillions of synapses connecting some 200 billion nerve cells. To put it in perspective, if the synapses just in the cerebral cortex were stars, they would fill 1500 Milky Way galaxies. Details of the study are in the Journal Neuron.

Stephen Goforth

Love is..

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C S Lewis

Love as God

Every human love, at its height, has a tendency to claim for itself a divine authority. Its voice tends to sound as if it were the will of God Himself. It tells us not to count the cost, it demands of us a total commitment, it attempts to over-ride all other claims and insinuates that any action which I sincerely done “for love’s sake” is thereby lawful and even meritorious. That erotic love and love of one’s country may tus attempt to “become gods” is generally recognized. But family affection may do the same. So, in a different way, may friendship.

CS Lewis
The Four Loves

A Prayer

Lord, protect me from your followers!

Lessons of History

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
Gerda Lerner

My Dog

Lord, make me the kind of person my dog thinks I am.

Love and Kindness

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
CS Lewis

Satisfied

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher

The Best Parts

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
William Wordsworth

Moving Forward

Life moves forward, whether we go with it or not.