MORE BITS AND PIECES: Fragments from my basket of loaves and fishes.

As I read my scientific inquiry colleagues, science is the only permanent stability in a world of rationalism and opinions, as good as they might be. While theories and theorems are valid, they are only so until theoretical physicists discover new ones, which is all the time. Scriptures would say that it is not only new wine (ideas) but new wineskins (challenging the assumptions of existing theories. In this sense, science and My Cistercian Way are constantly evolving while maintaining a rational and objective base for human assumptions and hypotheses.

Not so random thoughts about nothing specifically:

Because of the hyper-importance of the Scriptures in my life, I sometimes forget that many people have thoughts and commentaries that would add to the assimilation of what is good and true. Such authors are the Greeks, many of whom we have comments they made and which, even today, are harbingers of the teachings of Christ. Here are a few thoughts that I find inspiring. I offer these quotes because I wanted to share the joy that I had in reading them with you. They come from Az Quotes.

“”The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become.” ~ Heraclitus

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” ~ Heraclitus

“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only about those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny … it is the light that guides your way.” ~ Heraclitus

“If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.” ~ Heraclitus

“Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.” ~ Heraclitus

“Nothing is, everything is becoming.” ~ Heraclitus

“The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.” ~ Heraclitus

“Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.” ~ Heraclitus

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” ~ Plutarch

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” ~ Plutarch

“To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.” ~ Plutarch

“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.” ~ Plutarch

“The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing.” ~ Plutarch

“Reason speaks and feeling bites” ~ Plutarch

“All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.” ~ Demosthenes

“Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.” ~ Demosthenes

“An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.” ~ Aeschines

“Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.” ~ Aeschines

“Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.” ~ Thucydides

“Knowledge without understanding is useless.” ~ Thucydides

“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.” ~ Thucydides

“Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.” ~ Thucydides

“For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.” ~ Thucydides

“I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.” ~ Themistocles

“The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.” ~ Themistocles

“A man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.” ~ Euripides

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.” ~ Euripides

“The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it” ~ Hippocrates

“The physician treats, but nature heals.” ~ Hippocrates

“To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.” ~ Hippocrates

I hope you liked a few quotes that I used in my Meditatio for Lectio Divina.

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