I cannot believe I forgot to include Metropolitan Kallistos Ware's books on my list in my last post. So I am including some of his thoughts from his book The Orthodox Way here. He has definitely been a lighthouse for me and so many others. “Joyful thanksgiving, so far from being escapist or sentimental, is… Continue reading Wise words from Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
I set out in the beginning of the Lenten season with the intention of taking a deeper look at the divine image I carry. You can read my intial post here if you so desire. It seemed good to set it aside for a bit but I have had to revisit the topic because I… Continue reading healing the divine image (part 2)
"The miracle of Bach has not appeared in any other art. To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervour, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and… Continue reading Beautiful words and music from Pablo Casals
There are about six weeks left until the official end date of my Emily project on May 15. It has occurred to me several times during the current situation that Emily would have fared very well given the same situation as she was already practicing self isolating as a way of life. A dear friend… Continue reading good work
"We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed; (2) by experiencing something or encountering someone; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering" and that "everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms… Continue reading find the meaning
When I was in graduate school, an age ago it seems, one of my professors told us that synthesizing of concepts is one of the highest forms of thought. And although I am still trying to practice "one thing at a time," with regularity, weaving different threads together has proved to be fairly exhilarating as… Continue reading synthesis
"Let me seek, then the gift of silence, and poverty, and solitude, where everything I touch is turned into a prayer: where the sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all." ~ from THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE by Thomas Merton The… Continue reading this is also prayer
