Simplify
For there are only three kinds of good. So if a thing is not virtuous, useful, or pleasant, it’s not really good. So fagetaboutit! Simplify your life by throwing out all the things you have…
Category: Wisdom Traditions
Today’s One-Liner (#326)
My greatest skill has been to want but little. –Henry David Thoreau, in Tim Flinders, Henry David Thoreau: Spiritual and Prophetic Writings, 15
Keep at It
If there is one thing I have learned from Mother Angelica and Father Fessio, two of the brightest stars in the Church today, it is that good ideas ought to be pursued, and then one…
Learn from the Saints
Look at the example given by saints in every walk of life. There is nothing that they have not done in order to love God and be his devoted followers. –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to…
Today’s One-Liner (#323)
Vain thoughts and useless plans, I abjure you. –Saint Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life, trans. JK Ryan, 44
Today’s One-Liner (#322)
The Bible has always been restricted in communist countries because it is an agent for change. –A pastor, quoted in Robert Royal, The Martyrs of the New Millennium: The Global Persecution of Christians in…
Peace Work
… I used to remind my friends that agitating for peace and actually bringing it about are not necessarily the same. Stirring up passions, provoking animosity, and polarizing opposition may sometimes produce short-term gains, but…
Today’s One-Liner (#321)
With detachment, life’s ups and downs need hardly affect our security at all. –Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes, 136
A Brother’s Gift
To the Jews who, in the sixties, envied the Black Power Movement; who in the nineties envied the Palestinians; who weep at Exodus but jeer at the Israel Defense Forces; who nod when Tevye praises…
Today’s One-Liner (#320)
The Jew is not only made and instructed but also commanded to live in the world and to enjoy those things that God permitted him—among the chiefest joys: that of belonging. –David Mamet, The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism,…