Today’s One-Liner (#32)
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. –Saint Teresa of Avila Given Institute
Category: Wisdom Traditions
Today’s One-Liner (#31)
They learn everything, except the art of learning. –Dorothy Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning
From Antigone to Thich Nhat Hanh
Teach us to care and not to care…T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday Over the years when reading Sophocles’ Antigone, I tended to see her as the conscientious heroine, standing alone against her uncle Creon, the brutal…
Today’s One-Liner (#29)
In my mind there are three things: concentration, loving-kindness, and peace. –Dipa Ma, in Amy Schmidt, Dipa Ma: The Life and Teachings of a Buddhist Master
Don’t Wait till Later
The Stoics would always say, one must think death is imminent, but it was less to prepare for death than it was to discover the seriousness of life. Marcus Aurelius, for example, as a Stoic,…
That Divine Spark
A few weeks ago, I was having lunch at the Vine with Natalie, when I learned more about her keen interest in Thérèse of Lisieux, such that I asked her to consider doing a Share…
Today’s One-Liner (#22)
Let nothing upset you; let nothing frighten you. –Saint Teresa of Avila
One to One
Emerson never wrote for groups or classes or institutions; his intended audience was always the single hearer or reader. –Robert Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire, xii
Today’s One-Liner (#21)
Continue your efforts steadily without flagging. –Sri Anandamayi Ma, in Joseph Fitzgerald, The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma: Life and Teachings of a 20th Century Indian Saint, 91
Today’s One-Liner (#20)
Consider, Sir, how insignificant this will appear a twelve-month hence. –Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson