Faith ever says, "If Thou wilt," not "If Thou canst.
The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.
Time slows down. Self vanishes. Action and Awareness merge. Welcome to Flow.
When doing what we most love transforms us into the best possible version of ourselves and that version hints at even greater future possibilities, the urge to explore those possibilities becomes feverish compulsion. Intrinsic motivation goes through the roof. Thus flow becomes an alternative path to mastery, sans the misery.
. . . Suddenly normal wasn't good enough.
Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where asses really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?
With our sense of self out of the the way we are liberated from doubt and insecurity.
Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace - future grace - and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God's love and power.
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.