Identity

I have two quotes taped to my computer at work at an accounting firm. Are you surprised that I work at an accounting firm? Me too. It's so different from my "real" life that sometimes I can lose my footing. These words are my reminders.

"Since there is no government of which the concern or the discipline is primarily the health either of households or of the earth, since it is in the nature of any state to be concerned first of all with its own preservation and only second with the cost, the dependable, clear response to man's moral circumstance is not that of law, but that of conscience.

The highest moral behavior is not obedience to law, but obedience to the informed conscience even in spite of law." Wendell Berry

Escape

by D.H. Lawrence

When we get out of the glass bottles of our own ego,

and when we escape like squirrels from turning in the cages of our personality,

and get into the forest again,

we shall shiver with cold and fright

but things will happen to us

so that we don't know ourselves.

Cool, unlying life will rush in,

and passion will make our bodies taut with power,

we shall stamp our feet with new power

and old things will fall down,

we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.