Look Within
In a sense, everything Proust wrote was a rehearsal for the Search, but the important point—made clear by his many anguished doubts about whether or not he was a novelist—is that until he found the…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Today’s One-Liner (#62)
It is not things that disturb people but their judgments about things. –Epictetus, in A.A. Long, Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life
Recent Reading
The job of an intellectual is to listen to the history that is being made all around you and to respond in new ways by re-assessing your previous beliefs. This is what the founding generation…
Today’s One-Liner (#61)
It is perhaps even more useful to contemplate our stupidity than our sin. –Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Today’s One-Liner (#60)
Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. –Staretz Zosima, “Of Prayer, Love, and the Touching of Other Worlds,” in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov Easter morning 2012, Chouteau AvenuePhoto by Andrew Wimmer
Today’s One-Liner (#59)
De même que les prêtres ayant la plus grande expérience du cœur, peuvent le mieux pardonner aux péchés qu’ils ne commettent pas, de même le génie ayant la plus grande expérience de l’intelligence peut le…
Share the Wealth
I am justified in preserving too many of Johnson’s sayings, than too few. –James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
Today’s One-Liner (#58)
“Ram Dass, give up anger.” Neem Karoli Baba (aka Maharajji), quoted in Ram Dass, Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita
This Is, Because That Is
It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. Everything around him, this quiet garden, these balmy flowers, these children, shouting with joy, these meek and simple women, this silent cloister, gradually entered…
Today’s One-Liner (#57)
The purer your thinking, the finer will be your work. –Sri Anandamayi Ma, in Joseph Fitzgerald, ed., The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma: Life and Teachings of a 20th Century Indian Saint