Giving thanks today for the compassionate people; the lovers, helpers, givers, and healers, who see more than just themselves, who move through the world with open hands and not closed fists. Thank you. Keep going. It matters.
02415 – Becoming Successful Human Beings
It's not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.
02189 – We are More than Ourselves
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they were born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives' tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they...
01913 – Merely Applying Truths?
Sometimes the people who are most endangered by their own misbegotten rational capacities are Christians who have studied a whole lot of Bible and theology and think of themselves as merely applying the truths they have learned.
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.
01881 – Examining Big Questions about Our Existence
Socrates famously declared that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living.’ It is one of the most quoted classical sayings outside the Bible, but it is followed less than it is quoted. And if Socrates is correct, it would mean that many people, even highly educated...
01822 – Definition of Sin?
Many people define sin as the sum total of acts which they themselves do not commit.
01815 – Denying Freedom to Others
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, can not long retain it.
01688 – Are Others Happy because of You?
Rivers do not drink their own water; trees do not eat their own fruit; the sun does not shine on itself and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other. No matter how difficult it...
01669 – Responding to the Divine Presence
This is another trait common to God-bearers or Jesus-types--it isn't that God has preordained them to serve a special function. They have simply developed their ability and willingness to respond to the Divine Presence to a degree that enables them to be particularly...