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.

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.

...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.