People say, “What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.–Dorothy Day
Yesterday I read a comment from a reader and it made me want to expand more on what I have written. I am profoundly saddened by the destruction of our country
The horrific events at Virginia Tech caused me to look again at a book I purchased at least a year ago. Thich Nhat Hanh is one of my favorite authors and
In the midst of the tragedy at Virginia Tech today our president cited his support of the second amendment to the United States Constitution.
True words aren’t eloquent; eloquent words aren’t true. Wise men don’t need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren’t wise. Yesterday as I was in one of the bookstores I visited I read this from the Tao te Ching. I’m always impressed by the wisdom of the Tao. One of … Read more
Thirty-five years ago I read a book, Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda. It was part of a freshman anthropology course I was taking at Oswego State College.
I don’t know if you ever read Scott Adams’ Dilbert Blog. It’s one of my daily stops. Some of his posts really get me laughing and todays’ was one of them. You owe it to yourself to read today’s, “I wish I had a government.”
“We do not need to theorize about Jesus, we need to “re-produce him” in our time and our circumstances. He himself did not regard the truth as something we simply “uphold” and “maintain” but as something we choose to live and experience. So that our search, like his search, is primarily a search for orthopraxis (true practice) rather than orthodoxy (true doctrine). Only a true practice of the faith can verify what we believe. We can refer to traditional authorities and theological arguments, but what we believe can only be made true, and be seen to be true, in the concrete results which faith achieves in the world–today and tomorrow. The beginning of faith in Jesus , then, is the attempt to read the signs of our times as Jesus read the signs of his times.”–Albert Nolan-“Jesus Before Christianity.
Today on my way to Mass at Mt. Irenaeus I recited the Franciscan Crown Rosary. It’s a prayer that has become more and more a part of my life. I can’t really explain why either. It just has. Nonetheless, I stopped at a convenience mart nearby, bought some gasoline and walked into the store to get some orange juice and eggs.
I first read about Professor Bob Sutton’s book about three months ago on Guy Kawasaki’s blog. I had done a Google search on the subject following a particularly painful day at work.
