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Discretion warns us against wasted effort: but for the coward all effort is wasted effort. Discretion shows us where effort is wasted and when it is obligatory.
Thoughts in Solitude
Thomas Merton
If the land is possession, then the proper way of life is to acquire more. If the land is inheritance, then the proper way of life is to enhance the neighborhood and the extended family so that all members may enjoy the good produce of the land. It is clear which of these perspectives was appropriate to Sinai. But in its amnesia, Israel may forget its covenantal frame of reference and generate an economy that is anti-neighborly in order to have more and more.
Sabbath as Resistance, New Edition With Study Guide
Walter Brueggemann
That says something very important about the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertainty, and on a willingness to be exposed. It’s based on being more like a plant than a jewel: something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.’
The Antidote
Oliver Burkeman
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