Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
03251 – Enemies into Friends?
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03234 – Keeping the Faith
If we resolve to be considerate and to help our neighbours; to make friends with people of different races and religions; and, as our Lord said, to look to our own faults before we criticize others, we will be keeping faith with those who landed in Normandy and fought...
03197 – Be Kind!
High School Students: Be kind in high school. Be kind. One day you will get to look at your current classmates at a class reunion. You will get to do business with them in your hometown or elsewhere. You will get to teach your former classmates’ children, or doctor...
03087 – Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess
Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea...
02777 – Life of a Creative
The life of a creative is a lonely one. You think you are alone as the years go by. Yet, if the stars are on your side, you may discover that you are at the center of a vast circle of invisible friends whom you will never get to know but whom love you. And that is an...
02661 – True Friends: Miracles
Maybe we don't find a lot of answers to life's tougher questions, but if we find a few true friends, that's even better. They help you see who you truly are, which is not always the loveliest possible version of yourself, but then comes the greatest miracle of...
02657 – Everybody Needs Redemptive Assistance
Individual will, reason, compassion, and character are not strong enough to consistently defeat selfishness, pride, greed, and self-deception. Everybody needs redemptive assistance from the outside--from family, friends, ancestors, rules, traditions, institutions,...
02569 – Selfless Love is Costly
Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it, and friends never forget it.
02489 – Where Can We Ask the Hard Questions?
Anyway, most of the openhearted wanderers I’ve encountered are looking not for a bulletproof belief system but for a community of friends, not for a spiritual encyclopedia that contains every answer but for a gathering of loved ones in which they can ask the hard...
02475 – “If I Had My Life to Live Over”
[Written after she found out she was dying from cancer:] If I had my life to live over: I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren’t there for the day. I would have burned the pink candle...