Simply the Best
May 31, 2007
English Rose
May 30, 2007
Foreboding Clouds
May 29, 2007
Walking in the Rain
May 28, 2007
(March 28, 2007)
“Active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of ones life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and everyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and perseverance, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science. But I predict that even in that very moment when you see with horror that despite all your efforts, you not only have not come nearer your goal but seem to have gotten farther from it, at that very moment I predict this to you, you will suddenly reach your goal and will clearly behold over you the wonder-working power of the Lord, who all the while has been loving you, and all the while has been mysteriously guiding you.” –Father Zosima, in “The Brothers Karamozov”
by Fyodor Dostoevsky