When Things Fall Apart: Pema Chödrön on the Precious Opportunities in Difficult Times
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.”
Patience
Zim Flores on Reclaiming Your True Identity in God
“Discovering our identity comes first with uprooting everything we’ve ever known about who we are.”
Epictetus on Willing What God Wills – or Doesn’t Will
“What God doesn’t will, I do not wish for.”
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.”
What Autumn Can Teach Us About Letting Go
“Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long…[l]et it all pass. Let it go.”
A Prayer for Anxious Times from Trappist Monk Thomas Merton
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
Claiming Responsibility for Our Lives: Thomas Merton on Discovering Meaning and Purpose Within
“Although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling.”