Real people, real pork
I love when I come across a great quote, a great story, a great interview, or a really delectable pulled pork sandwich. And this must be my lucky weekend, because I ate pulled pork last night, and came across this quote just a few minutes ago:
Maybe one of the strongest bulwarks we have against the madness of the times is the endless and amazing capacity of so many ordinary people to live meaningful lives among the debris. - William McIlvanney
The larger source of this quote is an article, "The Art of War," from some Scotish magazine. But where I saw it is on the Web site of Megan McKenna, a spiritual writer and author. It's used in a larger article, "The Good People," which argues that it is core to the state of our souls to surround ourselves with 'good, common people.' And she uses writer Leonard Boff's definition for who 'good people' are:
Who are the good people? They are not easy to define; but we find them all the time around us. They are the honest people, upright, hard workers, who take good care of their families, they are always ready to help others, decent in their everyday life. Easy to recognize, they are warm, with a friendly look, as if they had goodness written in the face. They are people we can trust. They can be found not just among the humble but also in the sophisticated strata, among those who have managed to keep their essential humanity immune to the pretenses of a conceited society. This is why to be among the good people is more a state of the soul than a social class.
This kind of stuff just totally renews me. Maybe that's cheesy, but then again, maybe that's what makes us real. So now that my spiritual appetite is full, I'm off to find me some more of this...
Maybe one of the strongest bulwarks we have against the madness of the times is the endless and amazing capacity of so many ordinary people to live meaningful lives among the debris. - William McIlvanney
The larger source of this quote is an article, "The Art of War," from some Scotish magazine. But where I saw it is on the Web site of Megan McKenna, a spiritual writer and author. It's used in a larger article, "The Good People," which argues that it is core to the state of our souls to surround ourselves with 'good, common people.' And she uses writer Leonard Boff's definition for who 'good people' are:
Who are the good people? They are not easy to define; but we find them all the time around us. They are the honest people, upright, hard workers, who take good care of their families, they are always ready to help others, decent in their everyday life. Easy to recognize, they are warm, with a friendly look, as if they had goodness written in the face. They are people we can trust. They can be found not just among the humble but also in the sophisticated strata, among those who have managed to keep their essential humanity immune to the pretenses of a conceited society. This is why to be among the good people is more a state of the soul than a social class.
This kind of stuff just totally renews me. Maybe that's cheesy, but then again, maybe that's what makes us real. So now that my spiritual appetite is full, I'm off to find me some more of this...
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3:25 PM
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