Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer the negative elements in your life, don’t sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy!
01973 – Action vs. Inaction
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01959 – Myth of “the Chosen Nation”
It is clear that the myth of the Chosen Nation has been a powerful theme in American life. It is also clear that this myth can serve good and constructive purposes, especially when yoked to the notion of national covenant, for "covenant" implies responsibilities to...
01937 – Currency of God’s Grace
Ordinary love, anonymous and unnoticed as it is, is the substance of peace on earth, the currency of God's grace in our daily life. from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
01933 – The Gate of Heaven is Everywhere
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the...
01928 – “Seeing Through a Glass Darkly”
A young couple moved into a new house. The next morning while they were eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbor hanging the washing outside. "That laundry is not very clean; she doesn’t know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better detergent.” Her...
01926 – There are Degrees of Death
We all die eventually; we have no choice in the matter. But there are degrees of death before the final physical one. If we are honest, we acknowledge that we are dying throughout our life, and this is what we learn if we are attentive: grace is found at the depths...
01919 – Only One Happiness
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
01906 – Bear with Your Problems
One of the laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not solve problems: you bear with them until they solve themselves.
01905 – How Life Goes Wrong
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern. from The...
01894 – Life is Hard
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.