Читать книгу The Contemptuary - David Foster - Страница 8
ОглавлениеCollect for purity
We all have a tale to tell if we can be arsed to tell it. We all have a tale we mustn’t tell, we all have a tale we need to tell. The tale we mustn’t tell, we mustn’t tell lest it wound or traduce others who all have their own reminiscences. The tale we need to tell is the tale we mustn’t tell.
If we have none to whom to speak, we will tell the tale to ourselves. To whom do we speak when we speak to ourselves? The one who speaks is not the one who listens.
May the one who listens be the one to whom all hearts are open, from whom no secrets are hidden and to whom all desires are known.
A man who is pure in soul and without sin in his mode of life always speaks the words of the Spirit with chastity and he judges both the Divine and what is in himself in accordance with the measure of his understanding. But if a man’s heart is filled with passions, these passions move also his tongue. Even if he speaks of spiritual matters, he does so under the influence of passions. A wise man notices such a one at the first meeting and a pure man smells his stench
St Isaac of Nineveh
Dudley Leahy walked all the way from Uluru to Windsor
Pushing a trolley from IGA to raise money for cancer
He sent it to an institute the other side of Canberra
That spent the money then said to Dudley, we still don’t know the answer
Bottle of steam and a bit of skirt
Two might kill you but one won’t hurt