To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything. -Thomas Merton

people often say that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and i say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. this empowers us to find beauty in places where others have … Continue reading »

the next message you need is always right where you are. Ram Dass

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them. Jeanne DuPrau The Earth House

a quiet mind we talk about the time we spend sitting, thinking and breathing in a guilty way, as if the absence of action implies a lack of accomplishment.  but doing nothing is doing something. by emptying your head of … Continue reading »

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can decide how you’re going to live now. Joan Baez

You Spot it, You Got It Recently, I read a column in a Catholic publication that was about an important and controversial topic. Yet it was so full of invective and nasty ad hominem attacks that I had to stop … Continue reading »

I think over again my small adventures, my fears, those small ones that seemed so big, all those vital things I had to get and to reach, and yet there is only one great thing: to live and see the … Continue reading »

do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. do justly, now. love mercy, now. walk humbly, now. you are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. The Talmud

“And in the end The love you take Is equal to the love You make.”  – John Lennon & Paul McCartney The value of service, of being men and women for others, is an important Jesuit tradition.  Ignation living includes … Continue reading »