Today’s One-Liner (#32)
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. –Saint Teresa of Avila Given Institute
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Know Your Purpose
By refusing to distract himself from the main task, by jealously guarding his energies for what really mattered, [Arthur] Waley was able to produce his vast corpus of work. Title is a key theme in…
Today’s One-Liner (#31)
They learn everything, except the art of learning. –Dorothy Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning
From Antigone to Thich Nhat Hanh
Teach us to care and not to care…T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday Over the years when reading Sophocles’ Antigone, I tended to see her as the conscientious heroine, standing alone against her uncle Creon, the brutal…
Today’s One-Liner (#30)
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. –Joan Didion, The White Album
Today’s One-Liner (#29)
In my mind there are three things: concentration, loving-kindness, and peace. –Dipa Ma, in Amy Schmidt, Dipa Ma: The Life and Teachings of a Buddhist Master
Today’s One-Liner (#28)
Few people want to be saints nowadays, but everybody is trying to lose weight. ––René Girard, Maxim #30, in All Desire Is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings, edited by Cynthia L. Haven.
Today’s One-Liner (#27)
Old age ain’t for sissies. –Ida, via George, personal acquaintance
Today’s One-Liner (#26)
Dogmatism buckles under pressure from reality. –Nellie Bowles, “The Failure of San Francisco,” in Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
Don’t Wait till Later
The Stoics would always say, one must think death is imminent, but it was less to prepare for death than it was to discover the seriousness of life. Marcus Aurelius, for example, as a Stoic,…