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When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished the famous office of “Devil’s Advocate,” in order to fast‐track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono. ↗
#beatification #canonisation #deacons #devil #devil-s-advocate
Had I been less firmly resolved upon settling down definitively to work, I should perhaps have made an effort to begin at once. But since my resolution was explicit, since within twenty-four hours, in the empty frame of the following day where everything was so well-arranged because I myself was not yet in it, my good intention would be realized without difficulty, it was better not to start on an evening when I felt ill-prepared. The following days were not, alas, to prove more propitious. But I was reasonable. It would have been puerile, on the part of one who had waited now for years, not to put up with a postponement of two or three days. Confident that by the day after tomorrow I should have written several pages, I said not a word more to my parents of my decision; I preferred to remain patient and then to bring to a convinced and comforted grandmother a sample of work that was already under way. Unfortunately the next day was not that vast, extraneous expanse of time to which I had feverishly looked forward. When it drew to a close, my laziness and my painful struggle to overcome certain internal obstacles had simply lasted twenty-four hours longer. And at the end of several days, my plans not having matured, I had no longer the same hope that they would be realized at once, and hence no longer the heart to subordinate everything else to their realization: I began once again to keep late hours ... ↗
The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way—that people who are jerks to begin with gravitate toward verdant sanctimony. ↗
There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later. ↗
Musicians, like golfers, have to put their minds in the right place – trusting, confident, enjoying the pressure, being in present. And so forth. Otherwise, no amount of practice or “Time management” will make them better. The same is true in all professions: if you’re stuck in the Training Mindset, evaluating yourself, or thinking in the past or future, you will not perform up to your potential. You will waste a lot of time, be an inefficient performer, and likely assume you need to manage your time better. In reality you need to manage your thinking better. ↗
#inspirational #overachievement #time-management #inspirational
Time. It takes control over us and when we realize this, it's often too late. That's again the power of time. See? It's sort of a vicious circle. Take control of your precious time and live life to the fullest. ↗
Има две неща, които смъртният човек не бива да узнава: колко дни ще живее и колко пъти ще обича. Защото, ако знае, че са много, ще прахосва и двете като неочакван сън по клепките. И нито ще им се наслади, нито ще си вземе поуките от тях. Ако пък човекът знае, че дните или любовите му са малко, душата му се обръща на киселец: хем люти, хем киселее и всеки я стъпква в тревата, без да знае колко вкусна е всъщност чорбата от нея. А и - добави най-накрая луната - и светът , както лятото, се преобръща изневиделица. Ако предсказаното в неродената земя се обърка? Виж, ако дните на човека са повече, той ще умре само защото е повярвал, че са толкова, колкото е предсказано. Защото вече си е казал, че трябва да го стори. От този път връщане няма - и да оцелее душата, тялото умира. Ако пък любовите са повече от предсказаното - човекът не вижда онези, които му идват отгоре. И да спрат на пътя му като бездомно кутре, не им вярва, защото вярва повече на предсказанията, отколкото на очите и сърцето си. А когато човек подритне с крак жива любов, тогава и тялото, и душата му умират. ↗
