Epictetus on How to Live a Good, Fulfilling Life
“Trust that there is a divine intelligence whose intentions direct the universe. Make it your utmost goal to steer your life in accordance with the will of divine order.”
By Lamplight: Poetry to Ignite Your Inner Light
“Go, hart, unto the lamp of licht.
Go, hart, do service and honour,
Go, hart, and serve Him day and nicht:
Go, hart, unto thy Saviour.”
Yielding Control: Irenaeus of Lyon On What It Means to Be a Created Being
“To create belongs to God’s goodness; to be created belongs to human nature.”
Maria Shriver on the Courage to Recreate our Lives
“It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” -Rumi
Worry, Not: Søren Kierkegaard on What We Can Learn from the Birds of the Air and Lilies of the Field
“And even if what you want to accomplish in the world were the most amazing feat: you shall acknowledge the lily and the bird as your teachers…”
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.”
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?”