Join The Underlines // The Best Of What I Read
A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
In fasting, what begins with experiencing the emptiness of our stomach ends in experiencing the emptiness of the world.
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
Notice how similar the definition of liturgy is to the definition of habit. They’re both something repeated over and over, which forms you; the only difference is that a liturgy admits that it’s an act of worship. Calling habits liturgies may seem odd, but we need language to emphasize the non-neutrality of our day-to-day routines.
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
Who teaches you? Whose disciple are you? Honestly. One thing is sure: You are somebody’s disciple. You learned how to live from somebody else. There are no exceptions to this rule, for human beings are just the kind of creatures that have to learn and keep learning from others how to live. Aristotle remarked that we owe more to our teachers than to our parents, for though our parents gave us life, our teachers taught us the good life.
The Divine Conspiracy
Dallas Willard
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