Hodo Quotes

kore hodo to / botan no shikata / suru ko kana “The peony was as big as this, “Says the little girl Opening her arms.

...I have many names. At the moment, I prefer to be called the Selector." "What do you select?" A noise like a reptilian hiss that may have been the Selector's idea of a laugh could be heard from out of the folds of the dark hood. "Who I may destroy.

Young workers in Japan, referred to as the hodo-hodo zoku, started a cultural movement to avoid promotions in order to minimize stress and maximize free time. In China, there’s a growing social media trend of “tang ping”—workers “lying flat” to actively resist the expectation of constant work. Tricia Hersey, an American performance artist and self-proclaimed “Nap Bishop,” preaches the gospel of rest as an act of resistance to capitalism through her writing and communal-napping installations. The r/antiwork subreddit, an online community of workers exploring less work-centric existences, has over 2 million members.

Jesus also said, "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road [hodos/way] that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road [hodos/way] that leads to life, and only a few find it." One interpretation of this teaching is that only a few people are "going to heaven when they die" and that everyone else is on the train to the eternal torture chamber. Here's a different interpretation that I find more compelling: The Way of Jesus is "narrow," meaning, it is a very specific way to live. And if you follow it, it will lead you to life, both in this age and the age to come.