Simple at the Start – Dec. 2, 2021
“Every relationship seems simple at its start. The simplicity of first love, or friendliness, the mutuality of first sympathy seems, at its initial appearance—even if merely in exciting conversation across a dinner table—to be a self-enclosed world. Two people listening to each other, two shells meeting each other, making one world between them.” —Anne Morrow […]
Start at the Center – Nov. 29, 2021
“The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet… This is the basic substance of life. These are the individual elements that form the bigger entities like mass, future, world. We may neglect these elements, but we cannot dispense with them. They are the […]
There Will Be Signs…
When I read about Jesus warning his disciples that there will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, distress among nations, and people fainting from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world,* I feel like I am reading the newspaper instead of words written two thousand years ago. Every […]
On Not Belonging – Nov. 22, 2021
“The world is evil only when you become its slave. The world has a lot to offer—just as Egypt did for the children of Jacob—as long as you don’t feel bound to obey it. The great struggle facing you is not to leave the world, to reject your ambitions and aspirations, or to despise money, […]
