Humility is vastly undervalued in our modern Western culture. It is a prevalent belief that humility is fine for the pious or holy, but in the “real” world it won’t get you very far. Continue reading
Spirituality
It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours
Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something
and take something away. Continue reading
We must live by the love of what we will never see
I was given a passage by the Brazilian theologian, Ruben Alvez, who described hope in this way:
“What is hope? It is the presentiment that imagination is more real and reality less real than it looks. Continue reading
Life is always under construction
“…One of the greatest lessons I’ve learned in life is that success is neither the destination nor the journey, but a way of travelling. Destinations and journeys inevitably involve arrivals and endings. I have always felt the word retired, for example was misspelled. The word should be retried or maybe, reinspired. Continue reading
Life
Organising Truth
You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. Continue reading
When love is not possession, but participation
But ultimately there comes a moment when a decision must be made. Ultimately two people who love each other must ask themselves how much they hope for as their love grows and deepens, and how much risk they are willing to take…It is indeed a fearful gamble…Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. Continue reading
What is Real?
“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?” Continue reading
Happiness is a by product
Whenever you feel happy, you were not looking for it. That is the first basic thing about happiness: it happened when you were looking for something else. Continue reading
The problem itself, in its unfolding, reveals extraordinary things
If you are merely looking for an answer to the various problems, then you will never find it; you will only find a solution that is suitable to you, that you like or dislike, that you reject or accept; but that is not the answer -it is only your response to a particular like or dislike. 
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