Quote of the Day

I know my last post was the same thing (something cool that I read), but let's be honest, reading is about the most exciting thing in my life right now. :) (All done with Harry Potter #7!!)

This one is too good not to share with you guys because it reminds me of Linds. It's from Victor Hugo. He struggled with his faith when his daughter died in an accident, and wrote this in a letter to a friend whose father died:

"Let us bend our heads together under the hand which destroys. ... Death brings revelations. The mighty blows that open the heart also open the mind. Light penetrates us at the same time as pain. I am a believer. I anticipate another life. How could I not? My daughter was a soul. A soul which I have seen and, as it were, touched. ... I suffer as you do. Hope as I do."

Bros K

So, the only bad thing about my new house is that the commute is still almost an hour long. But I have realized that if I stop trying to read responsible things like the news or things for work, and instead allow myself to get lost in a novel, that it goes by really fast and I actually look forward to it. (No need to hurry and get home so you can get your stuff done and have free time later if you are already indulging in your favorite free time activity!)

So I'm reading The Brothers Karamazov, and came across the most delightful passage while riding the blue line. Here's a link to part of it on some other guy's blog. It's a priest talking to a woman about "active love," as he calls it.

'One cannot prove anything here, but it is possible to be convinced.'

'How? By What?'

'By the experience of active love. Try to love your neighbors actively and tirelessly. The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced of the existence of God and the immortality of your soul. And if you reach complete selflessness in the love of your neighbor, then undoubtedly you will believe, and no doubt will even be able to enter your soul. This has been tested. It is certain.' ...

'Active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go so far as the giving of even one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on statge, and everyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and perserverance, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science. But I predict that even in that very moment when you see with horror that despite all your efforts, you not only have not come nearer your goal but seem to have gotten farther from it, at that very moment--I predict this to you--you will suddenly reach your goal aqnd will clearly behold over you the wonder-working power of the Lord, who all the while has been loving you, and all the while has been mysteriously guiding you.'

Check out the rest of it. Thoughts?