Sufrir no es suficiente
Thích Nhất Hạnh: La vida está llena de sufrimiento, pero también ofrece muchas maravillas como el cielo azul, la luz del sol, los ojos de un niño. Sufrir no es suficiente; debemos, además, entrar en…
Thích Nhất Hạnh: La vida está llena de sufrimiento, pero también ofrece muchas maravillas como el cielo azul, la luz del sol, los ojos de un niño. Sufrir no es suficiente; debemos, además, entrar en…
No sipping Northeast Coffee latte supreme with whipped cream No texting someone I’ll see in ten minutes No zoning out to Diane Rehm No penciling out the evening workout on a crumpled scratch pad No…
Friends, Jean Durel will be facilitate our September meeting of Spiritual Exercises on Monday 24 September from 7:00-8:00 p.m. at my home (4514 Chouteau Avenue, 63110). Jean will share her practice of pranayama (breathing), which…
In her 1938 essay, Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf cautioned women to think critically about joining the professions men have created. She writes, “Those opinions cause us to doubt and criticize and question the value of…
Bhakti is the one essential thing. Who can ever know God through reasoning? I want love of God. What do I care about knowing His infinite glories? One bottle of wine makes me drunk. What…
Thích Nhất Hạnh: Si estamos en paz, si somos felices, podemos florecer; y todos, en nuestra familia, en toda la sociedad, se beneficiarán de nuestra paz.
Join us for a potluck dinner and discussion with Elizabeth Driscoll, SLU alum, Karen House Catholic Worker, Intercambio animator and Master’s student in Contemplative Psychotherapy at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Elizabeth will share reflections…
Someone asked Sister Dang Nghiem: “What is most important to you?” She answered: “My awareness.”
Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav: “The world says that stories are good to put a person to sleep, but I say that with stories you arouse people from sleep.” — Sol Lipkin, A History of Yiddish Literature
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. –Bertrand Russell