Come Out Swinging

[Simone] Weil’s critique of Marx is impressive in its sweep, its remorseless logic, and its passion, recalling the contemporary writing of Berdiaev.  –David McLellan/ Utopian Pessimist: The Life and Thought of Simone Weil, 77

Today’s One-Liner (#289)

While I thought that there was some element of madness in her projects, I recall that after having seen her I was even more convinced than before that she was some sort of saint.  –Simone…

What Makes for Peace

Do not think yourself better than others lest, perhaps, you be accounted worse before God Who knows what is in man. Do not take pride in your good deeds, for God’s judgments differ from those…

Today’s One-Liner (#288)

A spiritual man quickly recollects himself because he has never wasted his attention upon externals. –Thomas à  Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, translated by Aloysius Croft and Harold Bolton

Catholic Jack

As Kerouac aged, he reclaimed the Catholic identity he had inherited from his devout parents, although to the reader, the influence was often muffled under the Benzedrine and booze-fueled bacchanalia of his youth, especially when…

Today’s One-Liner (#287)

And of course, for your beginning studies of Buddhism, you must listen to me carefully and implicitly as tho I was Einstein teaching you relativity or Eliot teaching the Formulas of Objective Correlation on a…

Calcutta Is Everywhere

You will find Calcutta all over the world if you have eyes to see. The streets of Calcutta lead to every man’s door. I know you may want to make trip to Calcutta, but it…

Right Focus

You will never be devout of heart unless you are thus silent about the affairs of others and pay particular attention to yourself. If you attend wholly to God and yourself, you will be little…