AWARENESS

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

"The trouble with most of us isn't active or deliberate wickedness; it's lethargy, absence of caring, lack of involvement in life."

Too many of us are practicing the deadly art of non-living.

We go to bed early, not because we need the rest but because somebody told us we should. Far from burning our candles at both ends, most of us seem to be reluctant even to light a match.

We have so many warnings about what not to do and what might happen that we are afraid to do anything.

The feeling of adventure has gone out of life.

"There's only one answer, really. Each of us must be willing, at least sometimes, to chop wood instead of sitting by the fire."

"Every day, for every one of us, some distant trumpet sounds. But never too faint or too far for our answer to be: "Wait! I'm coming!"