Steering By Stars – Mar. 29, 2023
“After so many years of trying to cobble together a way of thinking about God that makes sense so that I can safely settle down with it, it all turns to nada. There is no permanently safe place to settle. I will always be at sea, steering by stars. Yet as dark as this sounds, […]
Out Beyond Understanding – Nov. 11, 2022
“If one reaches the point where understanding fails, this is not a tragedy: it is simply a reminder to stop thinking and start looking. Perhaps there is nothing to figure out after all: perhaps we only need to wake up.” -Thomas Merton quoted by James Finley, Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, p. 125
June 29, 2018
“Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can’t think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.” -Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life Etty lived lived in […]
