For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture. . . it is because you realize you can't not plant one.
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
We may treat of the Soul as in the body - whether it be set above it or actually within it - since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate. Now from this relation, from the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body's experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
Become vision itself.
The art of managing and leading comes down to a simple thing. Determining and facing reality about people, situations, products, and then acting decisively and quickly on that reality. Think how many times we have procrastinated, hoped it would get better. Most of the mistakes you've made have been through not being willing to face into it, straight in the mirror that reality you find, then taking action on it. That's all managing is, defining and acting. Not hoping, not waiting fro the next plan. Not rethinking it. Getting on with it. Doing it. Defining and doing it.
People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was. I stopped in the middle of the SAT to memorize a poem, because I thought, This is a great work of art and I'll never see it again.
I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.
I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time at all.