Today’s One-Liner (#125)
If you’ve connected with someone in a moment of life, the essence of that person is right there with you even after their death. –Ram Dass, One-Liners: A Mini-Manuel for a Spiritual Life
Category: Wisdom Traditions
Today’s One-Liner (#124)
It was not in vain that the ancient Fathers used to say: sit in your cell and it will teach you everything. –John B. Dunlap, Staretz Amvrosy, Model for Dostoevsky’s Staretz Zossima, 150
Today’s One-Liner (#123)
We must endure what is hard to endure and persevere in that which is hard to persevere in. –Tempo Roshi, quoted in Eido T. Shimano, Endless Vow: The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa
Today’s One-Liner (#122)
The work of extending your goodness and correcting your faults must never stop. –Liu Wenmin, J. C. Cleary, Worldly Wisdom: Confucian Teachings of the Ming Dynasty
Today’s One-Liner (#120)
“[God] has always given me what I desired, or rather He has made me desire what He wishes to give.” –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul
Recent Reading
Sohrab Ahmari, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ Wendell Berry, Blessed are the Peacemakers: Christ’s Teachings of Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness…
Today’s One-Liner (#118)
Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly. –Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Today’s One-Liner (#115)
There are three crowns: the crown of learning, the crown of priesthood, and the crown of royalty; but the crown of a good name excels them all. –R. Simeon, in Joseph Hertz, Sayings of the…
Thought of the Day
There are people who ponder about their friends’ shortcomings: there’s nothing to be gained by that. I have always been on the look-out for the merits of my opponents and this has been rewarding. –Johann…
Something I Came across in “First Things”
Alyosha Karamazov suffers tormenting doubt because the miracle he expected does not occur. But when he finds himself engaged in active love in consoling Grushenka, he discovers a faith that is compatible with uncertainty. That…