Forgiveness neither condemns nor condones transgression.
♣ To turn the other cheek is not to look the other way.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
Category Archives: Food for Thought
Whence Came the Talk Tyrants
Who tweaked the First Amendment?
♣ When were the “R” and “E” inverted? When was the “A” inserted? When did freedom of speech revert to feardom of speech and modern man finally convert to Parsimoniosity?
–♦©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
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
NO SUCH THING AS FEARLESSNESS
The Mystical Nature of Courage #2
♣ Courage imbues a dialectic maelstrom of fear and purpose, survival and daring, reluctance and resolution.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
THE IRREFUTABLE SOUL
Human Beings Are More Than The Sum of Their Parts
♣ The wise learn well that there’s a mystical, requisite, evanescent aspect to the human composition with its own special wants, needs and urges unquenchable by earthly means, somatic pap or material gain, a vague, sublime but real, innate, ever-beckoning element to our nature that’s uniquely alive in the said dubious, much-maligned, oft-denied but ultimately irrefutable and inescapable human spirit.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
AT LIBERTY TO FORFEIT LIBERTY
Free to Dispense with Freedom
♣ Addiction and conformity are ironic manifestations of the freedom to descend into slavery.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
THE VARYING INVERSE OF VALOR
The Mystical Nature of Courage #1
♣ There’s a very fine line between courage and stupidity, an even finer line between courage and obedience, a finer line still between courage and impulse.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com