The Crown of the Blessed
Moreover, if you do not steadily set your heart on Me, with a firm will to suffer everything for My sake, you will not be able to bear the heat of this battle or to…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Today’s One-Liner (#317)
[I]n my work, the “bad” mimesis is always dominant, but the “good” one is of course even more important. –Cynthia Haven, Conversations with Rene Girard: Prophet of Envy, 131
Home Sweet Home
Folk music was a reality of a more brilliant dimension. It exceeded all human understanding, and if it called out to you, you could disappear and be sucked into it. I felt right at home…
Today’s One-Liner (#316)
You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you –Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone, Highway 61 Revisited
Today’s One-Liner (#315)
Perhaps it is impossible to be unbeautiful when you’re happy. –David Grossman, Be My Knife, 11
Present Moment, Awesome Moment
Goethe once said that during eighty years of life he had known eleven happy days. I imagine that everyone, in the course of their life, must have seen many hundreds of sunrises and sunsets; they…
Two Kinds of People
Go back to Socrates: “Know thyself.” For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the…
Today’s One-Liner (#314)
When your relationships become strained we can ask ourselves what Jesus would have done—or, when that seems too lofty, what Saint Teresa or Saint Francis would have done. –Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes,…
Today’s One-Liner (#313)
If we get so angry that we can’t sleep, we are overnight guests in hell’s hotel. –Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes, 62
Time Management
The famous author of western stories, Louis L’Amour, wrote a very marvelous memoir called The Education of a Wandering Man. No book is better than this one for telling us how to find the time…