* The goal is to encrypt thought in such a way as to pose a challenge to break the encryption and thereby unleash the full force of thought.
* I want to host a party of ideas where the guests become intoxicated with thought — vats of which never run dry, and don’t cause hangovers. It would be a wonderful all-nighter.
* Conceit might be a form of introspection. In the end, it is also a form of insecurity from realization of an inherent inability to see things other than your own center.
* It is said, “Love begins in the home.”… Let that sink in. Then, looking in the mirror, question yourself. If you don’t love yourself; if you can’t solve your own problems, how can you solve those of the world? If you can’t take an honest look at yourself, and make an honest assessment on a regular basis about who you are, who else is going to see you for anything but what you are, like it or not?
* Faith is one of the three divine or theological virtues. Of those three (faith, hope, charity), charity (agape love) is proclaimed as the greatest. That should in no way diminish the greatness of faith as a transformative virtue for which we ought to strive with utmost determination.
Consider some of the benefits. Faith makes one’s words true if they are spoken in good faith, and if people can have faith in them. It engenders understanding anong people who, leaving distrust behind, can be believe in one another and learn to question one another with comprehension, not doubt.
Faith imparts strength: the strength to heal from disease when other remedies fail on their own; The strength to follow the proper course based on conscience despite the threat of persecution; the strength to follow the proper path and set aside the temptations of pleasure on the wrong path — not that you necessarily want to avoid all pleasures, just those attended by the vices (greed, lies, drunkenness, immodesty, lust, abuse of others) that can accompany indulgence in improper pleasures or intemperance.
Faith can lift one instantly from the depths of despair and place him in the light of a better place though he hasn’t even moved physically; just in spirit.
Faith provides the impetus to change course. Answers to the character of the future are found in the faith that forms it. Following natural law — that which unsaid is understood; God’s law written in our hearts forming our consciences, which we ignore to our hurt — we can establish a path to govern ourselves and the world. We need not probe the gray areas where good mixes with bad. We possess the map to traverse every step of our journey, and need only the faith to follow it faithfully.
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