No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Interpretation
Life's crucial choices often go unnoticed and shape our destiny quietly.
This quote suggests that the significant decisions we make in life are often subtle and lack dramatic recognition. Unlike grand moments that may be celebrated with noise and fanfare, the decisions that truly shape our lives often occur in silence and are not marked by external validation, emphasizing the importance of introspection and self-awareness in acknowledging our personal journeys.
In practice
During a motivational speech about decision-making in life.
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.
This is a matter of freedom. If you don't have many possessions then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped β it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
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