Dear Annie and Lindsay
I was earlier going through a 2016-17 Moleskine commonplace book I kept, and came across the following passages I transcribed from Harold Bloom’s book, How to Read and Why. I hope you may enjoy at…
Category: Wisdom Traditions
Gratitude Reminder
It is amazing in all the different ways we can be thankful here on Earth. We can be thankful for our coat that keeps us warm. For the butterflies that pollinate the pretty flowers. We…
Share the Wealth with Cait Stevenson: A People’s History of Medieval Women Mystics
(or, “Dear Lord, help me drink less wine so I don’t lose my temper”) Cait fell in love with medieval women’s mysticism during her MA at SLU when she realized they would be a much…
Today’s One-Liner (#75)
I only quote others to make myself more explicit. –Michel de Montaigne, Essays, On the education of children, translated by J.M. Cohen
Today’s One-Liner (#73)
If you can’t get out of it, get into it. –Patricia Ryan Madson, Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up, 11.
Share the Wealth with Alina Kohout: How Mother Teresa Inspired Me
Alina is studying with me at Maryville University in an Honors World Religion course. She has already made a significant impact in our class. She shared with me the following: “One day, I would love…
Today’s One-Liner (#71)
Be praised, my Lord, through all your creatures, especially through my lord Brother Sun, who brings the day; and you give light through him. –Saint Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun, translated by Bill…
Today’s One-Liner (#70)
“And I shall also tell you, dear mother, that each of us is guilty in everything before everyone, and I most of all.” –Markel, in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Today’s One-Liner (#68)
Lovers of God do not belong to any caste. –Sri Ramakrishna, in M., The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Soul-Power
A healthy ego is transformed into a soul only via the burden of another who must impinge on the ego, causing the ego to shrink, as it were. –Ira F. Stone, A Responsible Life: The…