November 2016 – Art Of Wondering

Heretic, Part 1 – The path of Casual Catholic, to Born Again Christian, to Atheist, to (maybe) Agnostic

November 17, 2016 / By James L. Patterson

her·e·tic ˈherəˌtik/ noun – a person believing in or practicing religious heresy 1.1 – a person holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted. (source: Oxford dictionary) I’ve spent years as a seeker – looking for answers to questions; keys to life; secrets of success; hidden/esoteric knowledge; ultimately the truth. I think it started sometime in the mid- to late-90s when I was in my late 30s. However, when I really think back […]

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“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. . .

November 4, 2016 / By James L. Patterson

I love this quote: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller (Featured image by Steve Yelvington on Wikimedia Commons, licensed by Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International)

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Knowing is not enough . . .

November 4, 2016 / By James L. Patterson

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Featured image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay)

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They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as truth . . .

November 4, 2016 / By James L. Patterson

“They must find it difficult . . . those who have taken authority as truth rather than truth as authority.” – Gerald Massey (Featured image by PDPics from Pixabay)

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All truth passes through three stages . . .

November 4, 2016 / By James L. Patterson

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer (Featured image by Robert on flickr, licensed by CC BY-NC 2.0)

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If you would not be forgotten . . .

November 4, 2016 / By James L. Patterson

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.” – Benjamin Franklin (Featured image by Chad Cooper on flickr, licensed by CC BY-NC 2.0)

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