Category: Wisdom Traditions

The Log in My Own Eye

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…

Today’s One-Liner (#140)

If we had more genuine religion, we would have less violence. –Rene Girard, in Conversations with Rene Girard: Prophet of Envy, edited by Cynthia L. Haven

Today’s One-Liner (#139)

Salvador de Madariaga once said that our culture should give to each man and woman, when each reaches the age of voting, a sturdy, elegant book containing an account of the death of Socrates and…

When Jesus Was Irked

As they were rejoining the crowd a man came up to him and went down on his knees before him. ‘Lord,’ he said, ‘take pity on my son: he is demented and in a wretched…

Today’s One-Liner (#138)

 How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different the saints. –C.S. Lewis, by way of Katrina Becker

Today’s One-Liner (#132)

We must collect all kinds of sayings and proverbs. –Isaac Bashevis Singer, Writings on Yiddish and Yiddishkayt: The War Years, 1939-1945 , edited  by David Stromberg

Today’s One-Liner (#131)

If we respected the tenth commandment, the four commandments that precede it would be superfluous. –Rene Girard, Maxim #90, in All Desire Is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings, edited by Cynthia L. Haven

A Simple, Extraordinary Gift/1

“And I am with you, too, I won’t leave you now, I will go with you for the rest of my life,” the dear, deeply felt words of Grushenka came from somewhere near him. And…

Today’s One-Liner (#128)

There are few things… that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the Fair Sex. –Samuel Johnson, in A Johnson…