Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman’s body was like that. If …
Quote for Today: Alan Watts
Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because …
Quote for Today: Thomas Howard
Everything depends on what is being enacted. Enactment itself, since it is almost synonymous with ceremony, is, as we have seen, part of the very fabric of our human life. …
Quote for Today: Krista Tippett
We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. …
Quote for Today: Muriel Barbery
In our world, that’s the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it’s been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, …
Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
The fundamentalist believes that we believe in nothing. In his world-view, he has his absolute certainties, while we are sunk in sybaritic indulgences. To prove him wrong, we must …
Quote for Today: Rosalind Fordham
Some tribal cultures believe that the act of creation takes place through music. They literally sing their homes, their villages and their valleys into existence. They keep them strong and …
Quote for Today: Orhan Pamuk
In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be that, in a moment of joy, one might sincerely believe …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and this is for doing it even if no one will ever know because the …
Quote for Today: Augustine of Hippo
Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? –Augustine of Hippo Public Domain Image: Buddhabrot …