The power of thought is far greater than most people ever realize.
Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.
For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.
Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.
Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.
A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.
One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.
I remember being in West Ham's youth team and seeing Jody Morris play for Chelsea at 17 and you scoring for Liverpool on your debut when you were 18. I was watching it on Soccer Saturday and I was like, "I can't believe he's scored!" It's professional jealousy. It's best to be honest about it. It gave me real desire. I was thinking "God I want that to be me".
I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well be stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.