Gratitude – Part 2

“Gratitude has its basis in our awareness of all the things that have come our way from the people and world around us. We…

She who tooteth not

She who tooteth not

“She who tooteth not her own horn, the same shall not be tooted” – Damon Runyon – Today’s blog is different and difficult for…

Awards for Changing the World

Awards for Changing the World

Some time back, in doing a review of Lyndsey Stomebridge and her We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love…

Sacred Nature

Todays blog is four quotes from Karen Armstrong, Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World, Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. Hopefully, something…

Resistance must become our vocation

“The theologian Paul Tillich did not use the word “sin” to mean an act of immorality. He, like Kierkegaard, defined sin as estrangement. For…

Spiritual Wealth

Spiritual Wealth

Todays’ blog is a quote that amazes me every time I reread it: “You were born to create spiritual wealth. You live in spiritual…

More Gratitude

More Gratitude

“Gratitude is indeed like a gearshift that can move our mental mechanism from obsession to peacefulness, from stuckness to creativity, from fear to love….

More Hannah Arendt

More Hannah Arendt

Todays blog is simply a collection of quotes on Thinking: There are no dangerous thoughts. Thinking itself is dangerous, Arendt teaches famously; but thinking…