QUIET!

(seen at Randall Friesen)

by Evanescence

---Bring Me To Life----

How can you see into my eyes
Like open doors
Leading you down into my core
Where I've become so numb
Without a soul
My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home

(Wake me up) Wake me up inside
(I can't wake up) Wake me up inside
(Save me) Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up) Bid my blood to run
(I can't wake up) Before I come undone
(Save me) Save me from the nothing I've become

Now that I know what I'm without
You can't just leave me
Breathe into me and make me real
Bring me to life

(Wake me up) Wake me up inside
(I can't wake up) Wake me up inside
(Save me) Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up) Bid my blood to run
(I can't wake up) Before I come undone
(Save me) Save me from the nothing I've become

Bring me to life

I've been living a lie
There's nothing inside

Bring me to life

Frozen inside without your touch,
Without your love, darling
Only you are the life among the dead

All of this sight
I can't believe I couldn't see
Kept in the dark
But you were there in front of me
I've been sleeping a 1000 years it seems
I've got to open my eyes to everything

Without a thought
Without a voice
Without a soul
Don't let me die here
There must be something wrong
Bring me to life

(Wake me up) Wake me up inside
(I can't wake up) Wake me up inside
(Save me) Call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up) Bid my blood to run
(I can't wake up) Before I come undone
(Save me) Save me from the nothing I've become

I've been living a lie
There's nothing inside

Famined by Linea Lanoie

Hunger hardly tells the half of it.
Famined is more like it.
The deep pit of the belly reels.
The very inner self cries out for food.

Skin and sinews left on bones,
Bellies round and full of nothing,
Eyes black in their sunken sockets.
Flies circle,waiting for their prey.

A mother keens for the child
Suckling at her shriveled breast.
Knowing the end is soon
Too soon, for her first and last born.

God take them quickly
Let them drink from your lifegiving stream,
Feast them at your table.
While we, satiated, rot in our own garbage.

(seen in a comment about this post by The Invisible Sun)

(seen at Caterina.net)

Nothing redeems but beauty, its generous permission, its gorgeous celebration of all that has previously been uncelebrated.

-- Dave Hickey

(from Jebediah's Emporium)

"Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science."

- Bernard Berenson, 1897

(seen at the journey)

“Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think…It is wounding work, of course this breaking of hearts, but without wounding there is not saving. Where there is grafting there is cutting the scion must be let in with the wound; to stick it on the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be sent to heart and back to back, or there will be not sap from root to branch, and this I say must be done by a wound.”

John Bunyan, The Excellency of a Broken Heart

(seen at The Invisible Sun)

"If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them."

C.S. Lewis, MERE CHRISTIANITY, p.82

(seen at The Door Magazine Chat Closet)

To me, the issue of abortion centers around the aspect of community. IOW, what kind of society do we have if it isn't a JOY to welcome children into the world?

--posted by Norm

(seen at The Invisible Sun)

"...the good life is not lived widely, but deeply. It is not doing things, but understanding what you do, that brings real excitement and lasting pleasure. What you must do is to spend 23 hours of every day of your life doing whatever falls in your way, whether it be duty or pleasure or necessary for your health or physical well-being. But - and this is the most difficult thing - you must set aside one hour of your life every day for yourself, in which you attempt to understand what you are doing."

-Robertson Davies

(via Karen Neudorf)

Jean Baudrillard:

"The high degree to which AIDS, terrorism, crack cocaine or computer viruses mobilize the popular imagination should tell us that they are more than anecdotal occurrences in an irrational world. The fact is that they contain within them the whole logic of our system..."

[via plasticbag]