David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

Category: Quotes

  • Zora Neale Hurston

    Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  • William James

    Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

  • Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

    Language works neither magically nor inexorably: “there is a plasticity of the real to language: language has a plastic action upon the real”.

    which I think is mostly from Monique Wittig.

  • page 10

    I met Brother Lawrence for the first time today. he told me that God had been especially good to him in his conversion. He was eighteen at the time and still in the world. he told me that it had all happened one winter day, as he was looking at a barren tree. Although the tree’s leaves were indeed gone, he knew that they would soon reappear, followed by blossoms and then fruit. This gave him a profound impression of God’s providence and power, which never left him. Brother Lawrence still maintains that this impression detached him entirely from the world and gave him such a great love for God that it hasn’t changed in all of the forty years he has been walking with Him.

    Brother Lawrence had formerly been a servant to the treasurer of the monastery and had been very clumsy. He believed that in order to be saved, he would have to be punished for this clumsiness. Thus, he sacrificed all of the pleasures in his life to God. However, rather than punishing him, God gave him nothing but wholehearted satisfaction. He would tell the Lord endearingly and often that he felt deceived, because his Christian walk had thus far been so pleasant and not filled with suffering as he had anticipated.

  • Sunnah

  • 100. Understanding leads to Freedom

    Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere.

    It is not the teacher, it is the mind that is violent and also afraid of its own violence.

    I am beyond miracles — I am absolutely normal.

    No problem is solved completely, but you can withdraw from it to a level on which it does not operate.

  • 99. The Perceived can not be the Perceiver

    To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.

    Assertions are usually wrong and denials — right.

    The consequences of your action will depend on the society in which you live and its conventions.

  • 97. Mind and the World are not Separate

    Everybody behaves according to his nature. It cannot be helped, nor need it be regretted.

    Well, words do not matter, nor does it matter in what shape you are just now

  • 94. You are Beyond Space and Time

    A personal problem cannot be solved on its own level.

    You do not think of happiness except when you are unhappy.

    To insist on immediate freedom of choice and action will merely postpone recovery.

  • 93. Man is not the Doer

    The only law he obeys is that of love.

    You; cannot change your circumstances, but your attitudes you can change.

    It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.