Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.
What you're looking at there is my arm, going into the rock. . . and there it is - stuck. It's been without circulation for 24 hours. It's pretty well gone.
A crystalline moment shatters, and the world is a different place. Where there was confinement, now there is release. Recoiling from my sudden liberation, my left arm flings downcanyon, opening my shoulders to the south, and I fall back against the northern wall of the canyon, my mind is surfing on euphoria. As I stare at the wall where not twelve hours ago I etched “RIP OCT 75 ARON APR 03,” a voice shouts in my head: I AM FREE!
Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.
Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.
May your boulders be your blessings. May you be able to embrace them. And may you find what's extraordinary in yourself.
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,for each day to have a new and different sun.
Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.
Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track. The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.
There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.
Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.