Quote for Today: Wally Lamb
“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like …
Quote for Today: Krista Tippett
Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is …
Quote for Today: Chinua Achebe
He knew that he had lost his place among the nine masked spirits who administered justice in the clan. He had lost the chance to lead his warlike clan against …
Quote for Today: Stephen Batchelor
By identifying with a craving (‘I want this,” “don’t want’ that”), you tighten the clutch and intensify its resistance. Instead of being a state of mind that you have, it …
Quote for Today: Dorothea Dix
I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign …
Quote for Today: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor …
In a Land of Queens: Daughters of Yemen
Presided over by Queens in ancient and medieval times, modern Yemen has been called the worst place to be female. Women in Yemen are encouraged to stay home rather …
Quote for Today: Albert Einstein
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice. –Albert Einstein Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: V.S. Carnes
Therefore, she hummed the provincial lullaby she had learned from the officers’ children in the English Quarter of Jerusalem, and watched in fascination while the savage radical’s eyes misted over …
Quote for Today: Elie Wiesel
Why do you pray?” he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe? “I don’t know why,” I …