We've Got it All Backwards
'We are not human beings trying to be spiritual, but spiritual beings trying to be human.'
--Jacquelyn Small, a "soul-based" psychologist and author.
Working With Words
A weblog devoted to spurring a conversation among those who use words to varying degrees in their daily work. Hosted by John Ettorre, a Cleveland-based writer and editor. Please email me at: john.ettorre@gmail.com. "There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real." --James Salter
Saturday, May 16, 2009
'We are not human beings trying to be spiritual, but spiritual beings trying to be human.'
--Jacquelyn Small, a "soul-based" psychologist and author.
About Me
- Name: John Ettorre
- Location: Cleveland, Ohio
I'm a Cleveland, Ohio-based writer, editor and writing coach, with more than 25 years of experience, including stints in Chicago and Washington, D.C. My work has appeared in more than 100 print and online publications, from the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor to local and regional publications. My work has been recognized by awards (including an Emmy) from four journalism groups.
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RELATED QUOTES I CAME ACROSS JUST TODAY:
It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare . . . . There are no ORDINARY people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.
-C.S. Lewis (The Weight of Glory)
We have all read in scientific books, and indeed, in all romances, the story of the man who has forgotten his name. This man walks about the streets and can see and appreciate everything only he cannot remember who he is. Well, every man is that man in the story. Every man has forgotten who he is . . . . We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are.
-G.K. Chesterton (Orthodoxy)
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