星期四, 3月 31, 2005

Seems like all i do is quote

Quoted from Daily Bread email:

James said, "The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy" (3:17). This gracious way of making our way through the world can come only "from above."

星期二, 3月 29, 2005

Quote 2

From same book from same author:

p.141

The grand problem is that of 'Unselfishness'. Note, once again, the admirable work of our Philological Arm in substituting the negative unselfishness for the Enemy(God)'s postitive Charity. Thanks to this you can, from the very outset,

teach a man to surrender benefits not that others may be happy in having them.

That is a great point gained. Another great help, where the parties concerned are male and female, is the divergence of view about Unselfishness which we have built up between the sexes. A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others. ...

抱歉 (if this is not the right way to say it, "sorry")

星期一, 3月 28, 2005

Quote from The Screwtape Letters

Background knowledge:

The Screwtape Letters is a satire written by C.S. Lewis.

Quote is an excerpt from a letter from SCREWTAPE, assistant to the devil, to his nephew WORMWOOD a demon in charge of influencing a "patient"(a human) and damning its soul.



starting from page 107-108:

You will find, if you look carefully into any human's heart, that he is haunted by at least two imaginary women--a terresteraial and an infernal Venus, and that his desires differ qualitatively according to its object. There is one type for which his desire is such as to be naturally amenable to the Enemy[God]--readily mixed with charity, readily obedient to marriage, coloured all through with that golden light of reverence and naturalness which we detest; there is another type which he desires brutally, and desires to desire brutally, a type best used to draw him away from marriage altogether but which, even within marriage, he would tend to treat as a slave, an idol, or an accomplice. His love for the first might involve what the Enemy calls evil, but only accidentally; the man would wish that she was not someone else's wife and be sorry that he could not love her lawfully. But in the second type, the felt evil is what he wants; it is that 'tang' in the flavour which he is after. In the face, it is the visible animality, or sulkiness, or craft, or cruelty which he likes, and in the body, something quite different from what he ordinarily calls Beauty, something he may even, in a sane hour, describ as ugliness, but which, by our art, can be made to play on the raw nerver of his private obsession.

Last night's dream

*censored on blog*
- recorded in Mar28_05

星期四, 3月 24, 2005

Jane said to me...

nice day,
nice music,
good mood.

for me i suppose it is:

nice day,
nice music,
better mood.