All day long a little burro labors, sometimes with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries about things that bother only burros. And worries, as we know, can be more exhausting than physical labor. Once in a while a kind monk comes to her stable and brings a pear, but more than that, he looks into the […]
That which hath been is now, and that which is to be hath already been. Ecclesiastes (circa 250 B.C.E.)
Love is the fulfilling of the law. Paul the Apostle (circa 5 A.D. – 64 A.D.)
The darker the night, the brighter the stars. The deeper the grief, the closer is God. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881)
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881)
It is no mistake then to speak of God and to honor him as known through all being… But the way of knowing God that is most worthy of Him is to know Him through unknowing, in a union that rises above all intellect. The intellect is first detached from all beings, then it goes out of itself and is […]
The well-cultivated soul has the Logos as its King. Didymus the Blind (circa 313 – 398)
Wisdom of a person makes the face shine, but not the face of the body, not a part of the flesh, but the face of the inner person. The face of the inner person is illuminated by wisdom. But wisdom, light, Logos, truth and the other conceptions are identical when applied to Christ. Didymus the Blind (circa 313 – 398)
The perception of the sun by an astronomer and by a scientist is far inferior to the seeing of the invisible God and it is inferior to the knowledge that comes from God. Didymus the Blind (circa 313 – 398)
He abused me, he beat me, he defeated me, he robbed me, in those who harbor such thoughts hatred will never leave… for hatred ceases not by hatred at any time. Hatred ceases by love. The Dhammapada
