Quality or quantity?

April 10, 2012 | 3 comments

A reader sent in the below extract from a book he read. The message is relevant to the Internet age we occupy, and thought-stopping for any author who contributes to the mass of messages pouring over the airwaves…(LOL)

“When telegraphs and trains brought in the idea that convenience was more important than content – and speedier means could make up for unimproved ends – Henry David Thoreau reminded us that ‘the man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages’.” ~ Pico Iyer, author of “The Man Within my Head.”

So, are you a horse who trots a mile a minute today, or a profound thinker who changes the world around you for the better with wise thoughts and deeds?

3 thoughts on “Quality or quantity?”

  1. “LOL” is right!

    Good message.

    Yup, Monday I moved nice ‘n’ slow, like a walking instead of a galloping horse. Not rushing through anything. Letting God guide the majority of my thoughts. Putting first things first. Completing all tasks before me. Not rushing around smartly.

    As a result, it was a wonderfully productive day of letting Christ’s light shine through attentiveness to others’ needs and sincerity in doing good deeds.

    Hopefully Truth and Love displayed themselves more by example than in words.

    Thanks for choosing a photo of horses running FREE, as they are meant to BE! 🙂

  2. It strikes me that your words “who changes the world around you for the better with wise thoughts and deeds” is an excellent description of weekly print edition of The Christian Science Monitor. It may not be the fastest “horse” in the news business, but it works hard to bless all mankind–those who read it as well as those it reports on (and those who do the reporting, of course).

  3. I spent part of the day yesterday profitably discussing with an atheist why it’s unlikely the new atom smasher in Cern, Sw. will lead to discovery of a “God Particle,” an event about which he initially seemed quite enamored.

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