All posts tagged Jeff Wheeler
I'm not always wearing my full habit...
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.
Jeff Wheeler, in The Blight of Muirwood
The same is true of any person who has a new idea. It is frightening to suggest something new, and both the delicate new idea and the person who brought it up can be crushed by the response.
So, as it says in The Gospel According to Bill and Ted: be excellent to each other.
Our simmering anger needs but a nudge to flame up and scald everyone around us. Yet when our thoughts are pure, we become a light by which others learn to read.
