Category: Wisdom Traditions

Love Is the Way

To love with understanding and without understanding.  To love blindly, and to folly.  To see only what is lovable.  To think only on these things.  To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather…

Today’s One-Liner (#277)

We are to keep our eyes on Him (and on our neighbors’ needs) rather than on ourselves.  –Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas

Today’s One-Liner (#275)

Though meditation you can learn to stand back from the heat of mental processes that are raging out of control.  –Sri Eknath Easwaran, Seeing with the Eyes of Love: Reflections on a Classic of Christian…

Microscopic Goodness

Grushenka recounts a Rus­sian folktale about a wicked ­woman who dies and is condemned to the burning lake. Pitying her, her guardian angel recalls that the woman did one good deed in her life: she…

Resurrecting the Frozen Heart

“Brother, in these past two months I’ve sensed a new man in me, a new man has arisen in me! He was shut up inside me, but if it weren’t for this thunderbolt, he never…

Today’s One-Liner (#273)

I looked with deep tenderness, and for the first time in my  life I consciously received the first seed of the word of God in my soul.  ––Starets Zosima, in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Gradual

A lost-looking pedestrian with a violin case asked a New York City policeman: “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” the answer was: “Practice, man, practice.” There’s no easier way. You learn to do it…

Today’s One-Liner (#272)

 Yet who can tell how many times each day our curiosity is tempted  by the most trivial and insignificant matters? –Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin

Today’s One-Liner (#271)

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves. –Samuel Johnson, Adventurer 107, cited in Paul Fussell, Samuel Johnson…