Make Light Your Liberty and Lose It
♣ Those who grow inured to the least servility grow complicit in their own enslavement.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
All posts by Mark D. Phillips
Age
Complacency Will Morph into Self-Abjuration.
♣ In youth you’re every hero that you dream of being. With age you’re just the person you’ve become.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
The Proverbial Glass #3
♣ Whether the glass is half full or half empty may depend on whether you’ve poured liquid into it or out.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
Power Corrupts
♣ All power tends toward fascism.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
Prisons of the Soul
♣ Pride and Vice are compatible cellmates.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
What is Life?
♣ Life is God appealing to man’s better nature.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
SELFISHNESS OR SELFLESSNESS
The Mystical Nature of Courage #4
♣ Courage is a flash point juxtaposed between two imperatives.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
Wisdom Draws Effervescent Lip Service
We Hear and Hail but Seldom Do We Ever Heed Wisdom
♣ It’s the mark of man’s recalcitrant and contradictory nature that the insight he’s so quick to praise he’s quicker to ignore.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
Thinking Out Loud
♣ Why Do We Always Talk to Ourselves When We Know What We’re Going to Say?
♣ Maybe we’re really talking to God when we think we’re addressing ourselves.
♣ So, why do we talk to God when God knows what we’re going to say?
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
THERE’S A FINE LINE BETWEEN CHARGE AND RETREAT
The Mystical Nature of Courage #3
♣ Courage is fear and a nudge.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com