From one of the most influential religious and social leaders of our time.
Why bother to pray at a time like this?
We spend so much of our lives pretending to be God, it is often difficult to remember that we aren’t.
Why bother to pray at a time like this?
We spend so much of our lives pretending to be God, it is often difficult to remember that we aren’t.
A promise to meet life head on
It is easy to be even-tempered in private, in other words. It is easy to be virtuous alone. It is easy to be strong when untried. It is easy to...
A promise to meet life head on
It is easy to be even-tempered in private, in other words. It is easy to be virtuous alone. It is easy to be strong when untried. It is easy to...
To take someone into the home…
You can’t be in a monastery very long before you realize that there is always someone there besides the members of the community.
To take someone into the home…
You can’t be in a monastery very long before you realize that there is always someone there besides the members of the community.
A thousand deaths
In the East, at least, November is a sear month, beautiful for its bleakness. The skies hang grey and heavy, the wind gnaws and bellows. Life changes drastically from the...
A thousand deaths
In the East, at least, November is a sear month, beautiful for its bleakness. The skies hang grey and heavy, the wind gnaws and bellows. Life changes drastically from the...
Five ways of seeing
Life is about learning to see what we’re looking at—if we actually see it at all. It takes a while, but eventually, the really perceptive soul discovers that there are...
Five ways of seeing
Life is about learning to see what we’re looking at—if we actually see it at all. It takes a while, but eventually, the really perceptive soul discovers that there are...
Darkness makes us rethink
Somewhere along the line, the woman I once adored left me. I was her star, her joy, her best companion, her confidante, her only child.
Darkness makes us rethink
Somewhere along the line, the woman I once adored left me. I was her star, her joy, her best companion, her confidante, her only child.