Today’s One-Liner (#229)
I recited the Our Father in Greek every day before work and I repeated it very often in the vineyard. –Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Category: Commonplace book
It’s Not Everyday Your Soul Gets Restored
“Rakitin,” [Alyosha Karamazov] suddenly said loudly and firmly, “don’t taunt me with having rebelled against my God. I don’t want to hold any anger against you, and therefore you be kinder, too. I’ve lost such…
Who Is My Neighbor?
And now a lawyer stood up and, to test him, asked, ‘Master, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ He said to him, ‘What is written in the Law? What is your reading of…
Today’s One-Liner (#228)
The love of our neighbor in all its fulness simply means being able to say to him: “What are you going through?” –Simone Weil, Waiting for God
Today’s One-Liner (#227)
Meditation is concentration, and concentration becomes, finally, consecration. –Sri Eknath Easwaran, Passage Meditation: Bringing the Deep Wisdom of the Heart into Daily Life
Life Is in the Collective
With the story of Thérèse, and only with her story, we see a fully realized mystic and saint portrayed as someone living at the center of a web of intense relationships: embedded, that is, in…
Today’s One-Liner (#225)
What I call “another sort of learning” is the finding and reading those seminal books that take us to the truth and order of things. ––James V. Schall, Docilitas: On Teaching and Being Taught
A Different Perspective
A God-fearing Orthodox peasant talking about thieves, with a shrug of the shoulders, as one talks about a social necessity: “It’s a busy life—there’s always a shop or a bank to rob. And where would…
Today’s One-Liner (#224)
Mama, do not weep, life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we do not want to know it, and if we did want to know it, tomorrow there would be paradise the…
Kafka, Sholom Aleichem, Peretz
In this respect Sholom Aleichem and Peretz are more like Kafka than any of the three are like most modern writers. The Yiddish masters are largely unconcerned with the psychology of individual difference; Kafka…