We all can render a great service by listening to opposing opinions without agitation, discourtesy, or violence, and by offering our opinions not as nonnegotiable demands but as calm, courteous statements. —Sri Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad…
Wherever the corpse is, that is where the vultures will gather. –Matthew 24: 28, New Jerusalem translation For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. –Matthew 24:28, King James translation
My dear Mother, you can see that I am a very little soul and that I can offer God only very little things. It often happens that I allow these little sacrifices which give such…
Learn to Pivot Love the Ones You’re Given Embrace Mercy Learn to Grieve Find Your Heart Celebrate Life Unconditionally Beware of False Compassion Begin Anew –Lila Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change…
In Poor Folk we have the first timid and hesitant expression of the great theme of theodicy, the questioning of the wisdom of the world created by God—thus a questioning of God himself—that will ultimately…
The meaning of order is there, but it is precisely its presence that determines the vestigial character of the treatment of it. The reason lies in the fact that the violence of the cultural order…
Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. –The Elder Zosima, in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
I applied myself to practicing little virtues, not having the capability of practicing the great. For instance, I loved to fold up the mantles forgotten by the Sisters, and to render them all sorts of…
“Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?” –The Gospel of Luke 24:32
Too conscious and calculating an awareness of all that the “scapegoat” connotes in modem usage eliminates the essential point that the persecutors believe in the guilt of their victim; they are imprisoned in the illusion…