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Why do sincere people so often find themselves at odds with each other? The issue here is not about when…
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Whatever energy we don’t transform, we will transmit. That’s a phrase I first heard from Richard Rohr and it names…
The world will be saved by beauty! Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote that, Dorothy Day quoted it, and centuries before Jesus, Confucius…
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was once asked by a critic: “What are you trying to do? Why all this talk…
Among people of faith, there is the notion that if you are person of deep faith you can easily renounce…
One of Dorothy Day’s favorite saints was Therese of Lisieux, Therese Martin, the saint we call “the Little Flower”. At…
You are as sick as your sickest secret! That’s a wise axiom. What’s sick in us will remain sick unless we…
In 1986, Czechoslovakian novelist Ivan Klima published a series of autobiographical essays entitled, My First Loves. These essays describe some of his…
In his autobiography, Nikos Kazantzakis shares how in his youth he was driven by a restlessness that had him searching…
Recently I received a letter from a woman whose life, in effect, had imploded. Within the course of a few…
