Life is a gift, though at times unfair and unpredictable. Faith doesn't exempt us from the unfairness, but faith does equip us to deal with the chaos of life with courage and perseverance.
02608 – Life & Faith
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02606 – Faith Makes Life Bearable
Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
02537 – It Always Helps…
It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.
02536 – It Happens to All of Us
It happens to all of us, I concluded that Easter Sunday morning. God simply keeps reaching down into the dirt of humanity and resurrecting us from the graves we dig for ourselves through our violence, our lies, our selfishness, our arrogance, and our addictions. And...
02529 – Love Life!
Love life. Engage in it.Give it all you've got.Love it witha passion because lifereally does give back,many times over,what you put into it.
02506 – Live Life in Radical Amazement
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement, [to] get up every morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
02482 – During Great Revolutionaries’ Lifetimes…
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes have visited relentless persecution on them and received their teaching with the most savage hostility, the most furious hatred, the most ruthless campaign of lies and slander. After their death,...
02477 – Beginning Today…
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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...
02470 – Living for One’s Community
If you want to be a true professional, you will do something outside yourself. Something to repair tears in your community. Something to make life a little better for people less fortunate than you. That's what I think a meaningful life is--living not for oneself, but...