“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots”

“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.”

“When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God.”

“The ground with more sweats dropped on it would yield more fruit. (Achievers Are Dreamers)Let us farm when it is clear and let us study when it rains. (Park Chung-hee)”

“… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having been taught how to freely speculate, how to profoundly question, and how to playfully define. Spontaneity of speculation being synonymous with the philosophical-poetic, the philosophical-poetic with the rural philosopher-poet, and by roundelay the rural philosopher-poet thee with the spontaneity of speculation be. And by the way of the rural what may we say? A philosopher-poet of illimitable space we say. Iohannes Scottus Ériugena the metaphor of old salutes you; salutes your lyrical ear and your skilful strumming of the rippling harp. (Source: Hearing in the Write, Canto 19, Ivy-muffled)”

“The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a part-time project, a good theme for a book, or a last resort when all human effort fails. He is our life, the most real fact about us. He is the power and wisdom of God dwelling within us.”