Let the fellowship of Christ so examine itself today, and ask whether, at the hour of prayer and worhip, any accusing voices intervene and make its prayer vain. Too often we put saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture. The Essential Rumi , translated by Coleman Barks, 256. Thanks to Christopher Hoover . A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, write a sonnet, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long , Robert Heinlein. It is astounding to realize that perhaps half of all human knowledge has been discovered or created in the past century. But then again, so has half the bullshit. All rights reserved. Not for re-publication in any medium without author's consent.