Epictetus on Willing What God Wills – or Doesn’t Will
“What God doesn’t will, I do not wish for.”
Flannery O’Connor: Wrestling with Ambition and Humility
“What I am asking for is really very ridiculous. Oh Lord, I am saying, at present I am cheese, make me a mystic, immediately. But then God can do that – make mystics out of cheeses.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Sometimes to Move Forward, We Have to Go Backward
“My friends, all I’m trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we’ve got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we’ve left behind.”
Things to Contemplate When You Need Some Perspective
“All of life…invites us into the experience of radical amazement that is a doorway to the divine.”
A Holy Week Reflection
“Easter is not about Christ returning to the same old life; it is about new life, Eternal Life”
Be Still: The Desert Fathers on the Value of Solitude
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?”
Letting Go: The Bhagavad Gita on the Importance of Non-attachment
“He who finds peace and joy and radiance within himself – that man becomes one with God and vanishes into God’s bliss.”