Such people do not realize that by alleviating the suffering of those before your eyes, practicing benevolence and living rightly, our good influence will extend far beyond. –Yoshida Kenkō, Essays in Idleness, translated by Meredith McKinney…
We have all known the long loneliness, and we know that the only solution is love, and that love comes with community. –Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness
But I want to seek out a means of going to heaven by a little way, a way that is very straight, very short, and totally new. –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul
Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. –Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Our legacy is Jesus and the saints. –Daniel Berrigan, S.J., The Kings and Their Gods: The Pathology of Power
Extinguish pride as quickly as you would a fire. –Herakleitos, in Guy Davenport, Herakleitos and Diogenes
Worry is probably the most energy-inefficient activity the mind is prone to. –Eknath Easwaran, Seeing with the Eyes of Love: Reflections on a Classic of Christian Mysticism, 159
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. –Saint Teresa of Avila Given Institute
They learn everything, except the art of learning. –Dorothy Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning
Teach us to care and not to care…T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday Over the years when reading Sophocles’ Antigone, I tended to see her as the conscientious heroine, standing alone against her uncle Creon, the brutal…