R.S. Thomas Quotes
All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders
Your advice seems a little ironical.""Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.
My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.
Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.
He looked like someone pretending to be a knight, which was bad. He figured pretending to be something he actually wanted to be was just asking for it.
It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting outof love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as ashort cut that way, but it has been known to fail.
She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.
A Man can Live two Weeks without Food, go two days without Water, and two minutes without Air, and apparently, an entire lifetime without a BRAIN.
The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.
The poor love life as passionately as the rich do. Perhaps more, for the effort it takes to cling to it.
the painter had no need for grammar.words fell from his brushes already knowing where to stand, sit, lie down.
She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.
It seemed possible to me, in the dry heat of that courtroom, that heaven was a metaphor for the grace of perspective you get when you die
Faith itself is an act of human willing enabled and disciplined by grace.
The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.
Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.
You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.
She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play
It’s a cruel joke of the universe that the one person who makes me come alive is himself dead. And evil. His very existence defies all moral laws and all known laws of physics.
Many grim tales stem from your green lands, and still deeds both noble and evil shall yet unfold there.
Evil exemplifies the contemptuous transgression and annihilation of virtue.
Evil is a cluster of well orchestrated blind spots. When it manifests itself to excess, we protest and want the blind spots that both produce it and conceal it back, and fast.
...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.
New Testament gospels are traditionally accorded a cultural sanctity and lofty regard completely out of line with their literary worth.
Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works.
Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.
It is vital to see not only what Christianity asserts, but where its precepts came from – how they evolved from primitive, superstitious metaphysical claims into “Gospel Truth”.
The only difference between holding one god as exclusive or supreme and believing in many gods specialized in function is the number.
In terms of idols which represented various gods: worshipping an idol or star cluster is no different than worshipping a concept.
You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects.
Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality.
Josephus is the first historian to make note of Jesus having even existed – and that happened six full decades after his death.
That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity.
The gospels, never meant to report, butrather to convince, are in no sense objective and dispassionate biographies. They are glowing accounts meant to persuade people of the writers’ convictions.
You are the only real authority in your life, but you yield that status to so many externals by believing in them, by having been punished or forced into accepting them.
Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it.
When, and only when, you clearly see the inner roots to an outer condition, can you change them and thus it.
There is no other force, no other determining factor, no external cause to the cohesive unfolding of your life’s episodes – only your composite inner nature. Change that and you change your life.
Vocal cords are not rental units. No Hebrew prophet, nor Mohammed, nor any founder of any cult or religion ever spoke the words of anybody but themselves.
The only creative force capable of causally revising your experienced reality is your power to change your Self.
It must be obvious that the Reality we all encounter only works one way, and it functions that way regardless of what the experiencer believes.
Whatever beliefs and definitions you hold will seem to be true.
Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it.
Reality, in its essence, consists not of particles interacting pointlessly in anindependent physical plane, but rather of values, psychological elements ofmind, made real.
Reality works in this fashion: what you hold in your mind – the self-image, hopes and expectations, world view, beliefs, fears, feelings and all else – becomes realized in your life, continuously.
Regardless of what you believe in or conceive of as the functionality of Reality, the Oneness of you with all you experience in your life is an absolute
So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather frominside out.
If you find that you “disagree” with something I’ve written, then you missed the point!!