"Christianity" defined by Leonard Cohen
This is from an online Q&A somewhere a long time ago, but I came across it again recently and was taken by its beauty and eloquence:
“As I understand it, into the heart of every Christian, Christ comes, and Christ goes. When, by his Grace, the landscape of the heart becomes vast and deep and limitless, then Christ makes His abode in that graceful heart, and His Will prevails. The experience is recognized as Peace. In the absence of this experience much activity arises, divisions of every sort. Outside of the organizational enterprise, which some applaud and some mistrust, stands the figure of Jesus, nailed to a human predicament, summoning the heart to comprehend its own suffering by dissolving itself in a radical confession of hospitality.”
posted by Fang Bastardson at 12:53 AM
2 Comments:
Leonard is a poet, a bona-fide sage of the times.
Listened to the new CD with some wine, candlelight, Vicodin and a hot bubble bath . . . True Heaven.
7:26 PM
Cliz, you're mixing vics with wine? For shame! With apologies to the elder statesman of the bedroom, I altered his words slightly to encompass your religious experience:
“As I understand it, into the heart of every Vicodin, the high comes, and high goes. When, by its Grace, the landscape of the heart becomes vast and deep and limitless, then the Vicodin makes its abode in that graceful heart, and its Will prevails. The experience is recognized as Peace. In the absence of this experience much activity arises, divisions of every sort. Outside of the organizational enterprise, which some applaud and some mistrust, lays the capsule of Vicodin, swallowed by a human predicament, summoning the heart to comprehend its own suffering by dissolving itself in a radical confession of hospitality.”
2:10 AM
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