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"Show me a place where hope is young And people who aren't afraid to love." Caedmon's Call, This World There are times whe...

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cann...

"Je vous ai tant parle du desert qu'avant d'en parler encore, j'aimerais decrire une oasis. Celle dont me revient l'ima...

"Take no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereo...

"Pilgrim am I in a desert land Wandering far and late, In expectation every hour... ~Pant-y-Celyn, Pilgrim The pervading sense of antic...

"Time drives the flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage and rocks grow cold. ~ Sir Walter Raleigh Having determined that Zero is n...

"Our minds can make infinite discoveries, sloth alone puts limits to its wisdom and its inventions." Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet One d...

"Venus," quod Saturn," My cours, that hath so wyde for to turne, Hath more power than wot any man. Myn is the drenching in th...

"The future belongs to the passionate and those who work hard." Senator Paul Wellstone, D-Minnesota ...and perhaps the passion and...

If you want to have a spiritual life, you must unify your life." ~Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude Hitting the road can remind us we...

"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." ~Saint Paul, Letter to the Galatians Be...

"The noble endeavor leaves no true thinker indifferent." A.G. Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life Friday night at the heart of sum...

"Warm summer breeze blows endlessly, touching the hearts of those who feel." ~Jeff Lynne, One Summer Dream At the end of a great...

"How do you know, what you feel- is it real, is it? How do you know, what you see- is it seen, is it?" ~Jeff Lynne, Impostors of L...

"Let your state of life motivate you." ~Erasmus, Enchiridion Militis Christiani My Dad likes to tell me that every day is a mini-p...

"I am a little world made cleverly of Elements and an Angelic sprite." ~John Donne How good to exercise the grace of the ability t...

"There are people who only graze the surface and go no deeper than flies in their walk. Others, on the contrary, leave traces where the...

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone." ~Blaise Pascal The desert is not always tranquil...

"A fountain of joyfulness will spring up in the desert of your heart. Not euphoria, not just any kind of joy, but jubilation straight ...

"It is one thing to recover from a fever, but quite another to regain one's health after it. It is one thing to remove a spear from...

"Therefore it is written of the apostles that they rejoiced to be found worthy to suffer ignominy for God." ~Meister Eckhart, The ...

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, and philosophers, and divines." ~ Ralph Waldo...

"Truth is commoner than articles of furniture. It cries out in the streets and does not turn its back on us when we turn our backs on...

"But I feel that my own life is especially sealed with this great sign... because like Jonas himself I find myself traveling toward my...

"Though tomorrow is not yet there for you, it is for God." ~ C.S. Lewis, Beyond Personality Ancients like Augustine and Eriugena w...

"What is the best comfort in suffering and tribulation? It is this, that one should take all things as if he had desired and asked for ...

"All suffering comes from love and affection. If I then suffer because of transitory things, I and my heart still have love for transit...

All right, this was the first weekend of summer. Yes, another summer, and the whole Noah's Ark thing becomes ever more obvious: everyone...

Opening Day . After about eleven solid years (and counting) of journaling, it's time to blog. Writing is so significant an act, recordin...