Mixed Blessings (Part 3) | Jake Haber

Check out Part 3 of our Mixed Blessings series as we look towards the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, and all they have to teach us. 

 

Quotes: 

Charles Dickens: 

“squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous...hard and sharp as flint... secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster."

“(Our) courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.”

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”

 

Alan Watts:

"Time is a social institution and not a physical reality. There is no such thing as time in the natural world - the world of stars and waters, clouds, mountains and living organisms. There is such a thing as rhythm - rhythm of tides, rhythm of biological processes... There is rhythm and there is motion. Time is a way of measuring motion."

 

Brian Mclaren: 

“Before Christianity was a rich and powerful religion, before it was associated with buildings, budgets, crusades, colonialism, or televangelism, it began as a revolutionary nonviolent movement promoting a new kind of aliveness on the margins of society.”