Prisons of the Soul
♣ Pride and Vice are compatible cellmates.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com
Galleries
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
Genuine Education Makes Persons, Then Professionals
True Learning Sparks Imagination, Induces Thought, Inspires Ideas.
♣ Real schooling doesn’t just pack the brain with math, science and business as a means of gearing tinkers up for trades. It develops the mind with religion, art and philosophy in a noble attempt to arm thinkers for life and sustain free societies.
–♦©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
PRECEDENCE WILL GO FAR IN SAVING THE WORLD
A Conspicuous Lack of Priorities Answers for Much
♣ In a cold, hard world fraught with need, pain and violence, it’s bizarre that we humans value athletes over poets, aggression over restraint, cures over prevention, impulse over planning, abatements over answers and conquerors over Christ.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com