Monthly Archives: October 2009
An Ancient Sufi Poem
I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone [...]
A Mind
"A mind, once stretched by a great idea, never returns to its former limitations." Albert Einstein Technorati Tags: ALbert Einstein quotes,mind
A Morning Prayer by Thomas Merton
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing [...]
A Break-up Letter to God
The following quote is from the NPR Song of the Day blog: Until 2005, David Bazan led the indie-pop band Pedro the Lion, which had spent the previous 10 years making smart, crushingly bleak records with Christian themes. Bazan himself has always sung outspokenly about his faith, but his work is invariably shot through with [...]
Saved by Hope, Faith and Love
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite [...]
What Lies Within Us
What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.~Ralph Waldo Emerson Technorati Tags: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace, Bernstein and e.e. – Today in History: October 14th
Image via Wikipedia Three notable persons received the Nobel Peace Prize on this date. They include: 1964 – Martin Luther King, Jr., pastor and civil rights advocate, was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. King once said, “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic [...]
Saint-Saens and Semple McPherson: Today in History – October 9th
Camille Saint-Saens (10/9/1835 – 12/16/1921) was born on this date. One of this French composer’s best known works was his “Symphony No. 3",” which was featured in the movie “Babe.” A portion of this symphony is in the video below. Aimee Semple McPherson, a Canadian-born American evangelist was born on this day in 1890 [...]
Selfishness – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.” Technorati Tags: selfishness,Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Today in History – October 8th: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Image via Wikipedia On this day in 1970, the Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was named winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Two quotes from Solzhenitsyn are: “It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is [...]
