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So I started reading moby dick today. Somehow I never got around to this one, which is kind of odd considering how many books (mostly “classics”) I have read through the years. Anyways, am reading it for a book discussion group at a local library that I decided to join…4 consecutive weeks discussing the book. Part of my ongoing attempt to make sure that not everything in my life is somehow engineering-related…you know, to maintain my sanity and all 
Anyways, came across a really good quote (several actually, but this is the one I am choosing to highlight right now ), it is from a sermon that Ishmael hears on the story of Jonah:
“As with all sinners among men, the sin of this son of Amittai was in his willful disobedience of the command of God - never mind now what that command was, or how conveyed - which he found a hard command. But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do - remember that - and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.” ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville
A good reminder. Back to reading… Really enjoying it so far….