J. V. Sharpe

[Philosopher / Idol smasher / Antiguru / Critic / Writer]

You’re in charge of pursuing your happiness, of pursuing joy. What are you going to do today that you enjoy? What are you going to do that makes you happy?

Life is a limited time offer.

Measure of worth

What we value determines the measure of our life’s worth. The less we possess of what we value, the less our life seems to be worth. Those that don’t know what they value have no way of knowing how wealthy they are, which seems to me a terrible poverty indeed.

Too often is it the case that we seek to impose our measure of value upon others. So, the man of money looks upon those without as poor. So too does the man of sensual delights look upon the abstinent or the man of adventure upon the homebody. How rich in nobility do we show ourselves to be when, instead of thus estimating others, we allow each their own currency and assessment of worth?

JVS

Don’t fear that you will die, fear that you will never live.

There is no more pressing issue than death. It, above all else, is the great revealator of our life’s present value. Whatever is threatened or promised in some distant hereafter is possible, but the falling of our eyes into darkness is certain. How better are we then to judge our lives than against that approaching night?

Life may provide us with allies, but the work of life is still our own, and the quality of that work is something we must live with.

My resurrection begins today.