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"When we do not know what harbor we are making for," the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote, "no wind is the right wind." Persons have vision…

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It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out…
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in…
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one…
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is…
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation…
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious…
To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away…
Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about…
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we…
Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step…
In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.

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