Incarcerated
The god I worshipped was my own delusion, and if I tried to find in it a place to rest my burden, there was nothing there to uphold it. It only fell and weighed me…
Category: Wisdom Traditions
Take Your Pick
To many the saying, “Deny thyself, take up thy cross and follow Me,” seems hard, but it will be much harder to hear that final word: “Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire.” –Thomas…
Wake up!
What’s most pathetic is the insipidly modernized brand of Christianity that bows down before everything that’s most ephemeral in contemporary thought. Christians don’t see that they have at their disposal an instrument that is incomparably…
Cultivate Courtesy
Francis said: Know, dear brothers, that courtesy is one of the attributes of God, who courteously makes a present to us of his sun and his rain, giving them both to the just and unjust. …
The City of God
Politics, though, represents only once facet of a book that stands also as a monumental achievement in theology, philosophy, history, and literature. Its arguments have been the subject of voluminous scholarship and debate across sixteen…
Today’s One-Liner (#361)
I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room. –Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer, #136
Standing in the Need of Meditation
For in almost all human relationships, we see others not as they really are but as we are. –Eknath Easwaran, Conquest of Mind, 151
Today’s One-Liner (#360)
I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith. –Mohandas…
Today’s One-Liner (#359)
Every day we should do a few things we do not like and try to do them with enthusiasm. –Eknath Easwaran, The End of Sorrow: The Bhagavad Gita for Daly Living, v. 1
Ego or Not Ego
[Sri Ramakrishna distinguished] between the secret sense of superiority which thinks in terms of egotistically helping the world and the true lack of egotism which is expressed in the idea of serving the world. …