It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler was one of those "I'd rather not" people I had to deal with as i was studying psychology. I never quite "got" him the way I did Freud, Jung, Horney, Rogers, Fromm, and Skinner. Nevertheless, I stumbled across this lovely statement that characterizes so much of day-to-day interaction here and elsewhere.
f we consent in prayer to be flooded by the river of life, our entire being will be transformed; we will become trees of life and be increasingly able to produce the fruit of the Spirit: we will love with the very Love that is our God. It is necessary at every moment to insist on this radical consent, this decision of the heart by which our will submits unconditionally to the energy of the Holy Spirit; otherwise we shall remain subject to the illusion created by mere knowledge of God and talk about him and shall in fact remain apart from him in brokenness and death.
A million thanks to Father Keyes for bringing this to my attention.
Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor
"So the problems of the world become the problems of the saints in a most personal way. If the world is hedonistic the saints will, by their contrarian example, become ascetics. If the world is Albigensian ascetic, the saints will become as "hedonists". So be careful which age you're born in (rimshot)."
--TSO at Video Meliora
Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor
A quotation on TSO's blog from the inimitable Mr. Luse. Sometimes I read too quickly or perhaps too inattentively. I missed this and it is worth repeating:
Lust devours reality, because it's all about "me." --William Luse of Apologia
