These Two
[Dale] Carnegie commanded anyone wishing to acquire truly extensive and precise diction to give over his days and nights to the Bible and Shakespeare. So I began to read these two sacred texts at bedtime. …
Category: Wisdom Traditions
Long Live Reason
To judge one’s own judgment: this can only be done by the reason, which reflects on its own act and knows the relation between that upon which it judges and that by which it judges….
Today’s One-Liner (#235)
We are not free unless we are good, and we are not good unless we listen to reason. –Peter Kreeft, Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas–350+ Ways Your Mind Can Help You Become…
“Pleased to Meet You, Hope You Guess My Name”
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy…
Ecclesiastes
Compared with the neat little nostrums of comfort-mongering minds who cross our t’s and dot our i’s, Ecclesiastes is as great, as deep, and as terrifying as the ocean. If this philosopher were alive today…
Turning
It is at those moments when we are, as we say, in a bad mood, when we feel incapable of the elevation of soul that befits holy things, it is then that it is most…
Today’s One-Liner (#230)
I don’t find anything comparable to the magnificent beauty of a soul and its marvelous capacity. –Saint Teresa of Avila, quoted from The Interior Castle in Rosemary Broughton, Praying with Teresa of Avila
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
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…
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