Category: Wisdom Traditions

Get with It!

Learn self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon as you apply yourself to contemplation, you will at once feel your senses…

Today’s One-Liner (#346)

Keep your heart at peace and a multitude around you will be saved. –St. Seraphim, quoted in Isaac Slater, OCSO, “Do Not Judge Anyone”: Desert Wisdom for a Polarized World, 76

Are You Sure?

How often have we misperceived the situation, a look, a sound?  We need to be detached from our perceptions, because we are not infallible.   –Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

Today’s One-Liner (#345)

Like an athlete who accepts  a grueling training regimen because she knows it will stretch her physical capabilities, the mystics accept hardship because they know from experience that trials draw out their best.  –Sri Eknath…

An Easter Message

I found the following by Insurrection Barbie at X on Sunday… … I told my kids a different Easter story this morning. One that I think really matters. One that reflects my journey this year….

All-time Greats

By the novel of ideas I mean realist fiction, focused on the complexities of ­human psy­chol­ogy and the social conditions peculiar to a specific time and place, that tests theories by examining the sources of…

Agape

…when we choose to exercise an act of agape (unselfish love), we bring the real presence of Christ to the people we love. We become tubes into which Christ comes and through which Christ moves…

Our Hearts Are Restless…

God is the very life of your soul as the soul is the life of your body. That’s the point St. Thomas makes in quoting St. Augustine. (All of St. Thomas is really only an…

Never Cease…

My friend and passionate reader Natalie Long just finished The Prison Meditations of Fr Alfred Delp and shared with me the following passage from the book. Pass it on! It remains only for me to…