The Custody of the Heart

If you practice the custody of the heart, it may save you from unnecessary folly — as delightful as romantic follies can be.  Do you feel yourself falling in love with your neighbor's wife?  Don't tell yourself you can't help it. Don't hijack Pascal's "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."  Get a grip on yourself.

Don't follow the musical example of 'The King.'   "Wise men say/ Only fools rush in/ But I can't help/ Falling in love with you."

A liberal will accuse me of 'preaching.'  Damned straight I'm preaching. Perhaps I should have saved this for Sunday morning.

Sunday Morning Sermon: Life Well Lived

To make good use of your time in this world, think of your life above all as a quest, a seeking, a searching, a striving.  For what?  For the ultimate in reality, truth, value, and for their existential appropriation.  

One appropriates reality by being authentic, truth by being truthful, values and norms by living them.  

It may all be absurd in the end, a "tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."  But one cannot live well on the assumption that it is.

So assume that it is not and explore the question along all avenues of advance.