{"id":2818,"date":"2018-11-28T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:12","slug":"nov-8-a-medleuy-of-short-long-loved-poems-sayings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2018\/11\/28\/nov-8-a-medleuy-of-short-long-loved-poems-sayings\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 28 – a medley of short, long-loved poems & sayings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, November 28<\/p>\n

How to explain what catches my attention when beginning\u00a0the day by asking to notice what wants attention just now? \u00a0 Today\u2019s post surprised me completely. A hint showed up yesterday when a 4\u201d x 6\u201d card fell out of a book I hadn\u2019t opened in a while. This saying of D. H. Lawrence has stopped me in my tracks more often than I can count. \u00a0So I took it out of that book and gave it a visible place near my laptop work station.<\/p>\n

This morning, I saw it again and followed a hunch about today\u2019s post. \u00a0 I sought out a file with the label \u201cPoems-Prayers I love.\u201d \u00a0 Today\u2019s post is the result, a medley of short sayings that have opened my inner attention when I notice them. \u00a0I stopped at five.<\/p>\n

Best to read them separately,\u00a0out loud.<\/p>\n

Have a blest Wednesday, half way into this work week.<\/p>\n

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john sj<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the knocking<\/p>\n

What is the knocking at the door in the night?<\/p>\n

It is somebody wants to do us harm.<\/p>\n

No, no.\u00a0 It is the three strange angels.<\/p>\n

Admit them<\/u>,\u00a0admit them<\/u>.<\/p>\n

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D.H. Lawrence: “Song of the Man Who Has Come Through”<\/p>\n

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I stand for the heart.<\/p>\n

To the dogs with the head!<\/p>\n

I had rather be a fool with a heart<\/p>\n

Than Jupiter Olympus with his head.<\/p>\n

The reason the mass of men fear God and\u00a0at bottom dislike Him<\/strong>,<\/p>\n

is because they rather distrust His heart<\/p>\n

and fancy Him all brain<\/p>\n

like a watch.<\/p>\n

Melville to Hawthorne 1851<\/p>\n

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It is possible to travel alone, but we know the journey is human life and life needs company.
\nCompanion is the one who eats the same bread.<\/p>\n

The good traveler cares for weary companions,
\ngrieves when we lose heart,
\ntakes us where he finds us,
\nlistens to us.
\nIntelligently, gently, above all, lovingly,
\nwe encourage each other to go on
\nand recover our joy on the journey.<\/p>\n

Dom Helder Camera<\/p>\n

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It should be noted that in the Society (of Jesus)<\/p>\n

There are different kinds of houses or dwellings.<\/p>\n

These are: the house of probation,<\/p>\n

the college, the professed house,<\/p>\n

and\u00a0the journey<\/strong><\/p>\n

and by this last the whole world becomes our house.<\/p>\n

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Ieronimal Nadal, S.J.\u00a0 1554<\/p>\n

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Sedulo curavi humanas actiones<\/p>\n

non ridere non lugere neque detestari,<\/p>\n

sed intellegere.<\/p>\n

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I have laboured carefully,<\/p>\n

when faced with human actions,<\/p>\n

not to mock, not to lament, nor to execrate,<\/p>\n

but to understand.<\/p>\n

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Spinoza\u00a0 Tractatus Politicus<\/p>\n

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Same picture of the sun low in the western sky – last Tuesday, \u00a0November 20<\/p>\n

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