Darest thou now O soul

Darest thou now O soul,Walk out with me toward the unknown region,Where neither ground is for the feet nor any path to follow?

No map there, nor guide,Nor voice sounding, nor touch of human hand,Nor face with blooming flesh, nor lips, nor eyes, are in that land.

I know it not O soul,Nor dost thou, all is a blank before us,All waits undream’d of in that region, that inaccessible land.

Till when the ties loosen,All but the ties eternal, Time and Space,Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds bounding us.

Then we burst forth, we float,In Time and Space O soul, prepared for them,Equal, equipt at last, (O joy! O fruit of all!) them to fulfil O soul.

– Walt Whitman 1819-1892

The play's not done

The play is not done / Oh, no, not quite / For life never ends / In the moonlit night. / And despite what pretty poets say / The night is only half the day. / So we would like to fully finish / What was foolishly begun / For the story is not ended / And the play never done / Until all of us have been burned a bit / And burnished by the sun.

(from The Fantastics)

The crucifixion is not everybody's cup of tea

“The crucifixion is not everybody’s cup of tea, in the current market.” (comment from a the antiques expert while valuing an antique mechanical crucifix on the antiques roadshow)

- I Passed by a church the other day that had a sign out front that proclaimed, "Come and claim your heavenly reward!

Ever seen a church with a sign out front that read, "Come! Be Crucified!  We've Got a Cross that Fits Your Back Too!"