It’s Christmas! The problem is solved. Now go and utterly enjoy all remaining days. Not only is it “always Advent,” but, now, every day can be Christmas because the one we thought we were just waiting for has come once and for all.
There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.” “To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think -- spend some time time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move...
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think--in fact they do so.
Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world? Because, properly attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion. Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime,...
I can't reconcile the way that the world is jolted by events that are wonderful and terrible, the gorgeous and the tragic. Except that I am beginning to believe that these opposites do not cancel each other out. I see a middle-aged woman in the waiting room of the...
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...
Sometimes we cling to our own certitude because we fear admitting we were wrong. Our higher calling is to realign our lives with what we discover to be true, rather than stubbornly holding to perspectives, interpretations, and claims we once thought to be right. from...
I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.
And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, ‘What may this be?’ And it was answered generally thus,...
To forgive is extraordinary. And divine. And uncommon--and not instinctive. In fact, forgiveness runs precisely counter to our instincts. It tugs us beyond the place where we would want to declare our pain, nurse our hurts and invoke sympathy. It encourages us to give...