Quote for Today: Hope Bradford
Continue down the path that makes you feel fulfilled. Those who continue on an unrewarding path for the sake of only monetary gain are displaying a lack of trust in …
Quote for Today: Lao Tzu
If the Great Way perishes there will be morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Sacks
The extraordinary thing we now know, thanks to Crick and Watson’s discovery of DNA and the decoding of the human and other genomes, is that all life, everything, all the …
Quote for Today: T.H. White
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or …
Quote for Today: Umberto Eco
But is the unicorn a falsehood? It’s the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity; it can be captured only by setting a …
A Strange Authenticity: The Spirit of Johnson Mesa
How do we recharge when the world becomes too much to endure? Seeking different sights and sounds can help. Near Raton, New Mexico, a small, shabby town along I-25, a …
Quote for Today: Abraham Joshua Heschel
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man …
Quote for Today: Peter Høeg
The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning. …
Quote for Today: Charles de Lint
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused — hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical …
Dawn without Memory: ISIS in Palmyra
Last May, the Islamic State took the ancient city of Palmyra. Why should we care that it is being destroyed? ISIS doesn’t have a good track record with UNESCO World …