Today’s One-Liner (#125)

 If you’ve connected with someone in a moment of life, the essence of that person is right there with you even after their death. –Ram Dass, One-Liners:  A Mini-Manuel for a Spiritual Life

Today’s One-Liner (#124)

It was not in vain that the ancient Fathers used to say: sit in your cell and it will teach you everything. –John B. Dunlap, Staretz Amvrosy, Model for Dostoevsky’s Staretz Zossima, 150

Our 65th Exchange on Israel and Palestine

A summer evening, 2008, we’re shmoozing at Coffee Cartel.  All these years later, Nava, I remember you telling me at one point, totally matter-of-fact,  no trace of irritation, “You know, you’re very one-sided.” I acknowledged,…

Today’s One-Liner (#123)

We must endure what is hard to endure and persevere in that which is hard to persevere in.   –Tempo Roshi, quoted in Eido T. Shimano, Endless Vow:  The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa

Today’s One-Liner (#122)

The work of extending your goodness and correcting your faults must never stop.  –Liu Wenmin,  J. C. Cleary, Worldly Wisdom: Confucian Teachings of the Ming Dynasty

Today’s One-Liner (#121)

 He that has read Shakespeare with attention will perhaps find little new in the crowded world.  –Dr. Samuel Johnson, dedication in Mrs. Lennox’ Shakespeare Illustrated, 1753, cited in  A Johnson Sampler, edited by Henry Darcy…

Recent Reading

Sohrab  Ahmari, The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos Thomas à  Kempis, The Imitation of Christ Wendell Berry, Blessed are the Peacemakers: Christ’s Teachings of Love, Compassion, and Forgiveness…

Today’s One-Liner (#119)

Fortitude is the key to any great endeavor, and the only way to earn it is one small step at a time.  –Lila Rose, Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded…