Emotion is what turns an object into a memento, an event into a happening, and a person into the love of your life.
03900 – Considering Our Emotions
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03879 – Emotion is the Key
Emotion is what turns an object into a memento, an event into a happening, and a person into the love of your life.
02827 – Knowing God
God approaches our minds by receding from them. We can never fully know Him if we think of Him as an object of capture, to be fenced in by our own ideas. We know Him better after our minds have let Him go. The Lord travels in all directions at once. The Lord arrives...
02244 – Silence & God
In silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
02114 – Aggrandizing Damages
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
01700 – Objecting to Violence
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
01696 – The Task of Christianity
It is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.
01496 – Anger is Within
A monk decides to meditate alone. Away from his monastery, he takes a boat and goes to the middle of the lake, closes his eyes and begins to meditate. After a few hours of unperturbed silence, he suddenly feels the blow of another boat hitting his. With his eyes still...