The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
03860 – Thankfulness: Good Medicine
When you are emotionally, physically, or spiritually weary: stop, look, and find anyone or anything that helps you to say thank you. Being thankful is good medicine for whatever ails us.
03572 – Doubt? Or Certainty?
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me - -that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the...
03485 – Nothing to be Grateful For? Keep Looking!
And if you don't think you have anything to be grateful for, keep looking. Because you don't just receive optimism. You can't wait for things to be great and then be grateful for that. You've got to behave in a way that promotes that.
03319 – A Continuous, Increasing Joy
Sacred space and sacred time and something joyous to do is all we need. Almost anything then becomes a continuous and increasing joy. from A Joseph Campbell Companion
03081 – Who is My Hero?
Anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
02798 – Family isn’t Always Blood
Family isn’t always blood, it’s the people in your life who want you in theirs: the ones who accept you for who you are, the ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.
02783 – Music: The Great Uniter
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. from Just Listen
02615 – Making the Darkness Conscious
There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
02466 – What the World Needs Most
We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we are not doing anything we are wasting our time. But that is not true. Our time is first of all for us to be. To be what? To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be...