Throughout the world what remains of the vast public spaces are now only the stuff of legends: Robin Hood__ forest, the Great Plains of the Amerindians, the steppes of the nomadic tribes, and so forth_ Rousseau said that the first person who wanted a piece of nature as his or her own exclusive possession and transformed it into the transcendent form of private property was the one who invented evil. Good, on the contrary, is what is common.

So do you want to make culture? Find a community, a small group who can lovingly fuel your dreams and puncture your illusions. Find friends and form a family who are willing to see grace at work in one another's lives, who can discern together which gifts and which crosses each has been called to bear. Find people who have a holy respect for power and a holy willingness to spend their power alongside the powerless. Find some partners in the wild and wonderful world beyond church doors. And then, together, make something of the world.

When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

The final aim of any temptation is to bring a person back into the kingdom of darkness.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.