February 2012
6 posts
“You cannot understand anything well once you have approved or disapproved of it....”
– Richard Rohr, Adapted from Near Occasions of Grace, pp. 18-19
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each...”
– Mother Teresa (via thefreenomad)
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via yourperestroika)
“It is a humorous paradox that in a faith that speaks about the “journey” of...”
– Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, p.85 (via phileena)
January 2012
21 posts
“There is a “necessary suffering” to human life, and if we avoid its cycles we...”
– Richard Rohr, Adapted from Loving the Two Halves of Life: The Further Journey
“Remember, always remember, that the heartfelt desire to do the will of God is,...”
– Richard Rohr, Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
“Faith has degenerated into the confident belief in certain facts, and a...”
– Moltmann (via azspot)
“Our electoral system, already hostage to corporate money and corporate...”
– Chris Hedges, Thank You for Standing Up
“Of course, whenever people discover that other folk are going out of their way...”
– N.T. Wright (via azspot)
“I always tell people who ask if they can quote me that if it is true wisdom then...”
– Richard Rohr, adapted from On the Threshold of Transformation
“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so...”
– Rumi (via thefreenomad)
“I am with you always,
you promised that,
and when I realized that it was true,...”
– Rumi (via thefreenomad)
““Wisdom is bright and does not grow dim … and is found by those who look...”
– Richard Rohr, From The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
“Pessimism and optimism are the flip sides of the same coin. We should reject the...”
– Cornel West (via karamazov-alexei)
“If you board the wrong train it is no use running...
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- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.”
– Jacques Derrida (via yourperestroika)
This is exactly why the sub-title of my spirituality is “fake it ‘til you make it.” miketodd07
“The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a...”
– Wendell Berry (via azspot)
“Let me tell you what keeps me up at night. My deepest fear in life is that I’m...”
– Experimental Theology (via slacktivist)
“When did the incarnation begin? It began with the “Big Bang,” 14.5 billion years...”
– Richard Rohr, Adapted from Soul Centering Through Nature: Becoming a True Human Adult(webcast)
“Who we have been and who we are becoming create who we are.”
“Our DNA is divine. The divine indwelling is never earned by any behavior...”
– Richard Rohr, Adapted from The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See , p. 22
“To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely — to step in the name...”
– Cornel West, Democracy Matters (via catechumenate)
“Why is it that if in most boardrooms, you uttered words like...”
– Umair Haque, Betterness: Economics For Humans
“Without the perspective that sees evil as a dark force that stands behind human...”
– N.T. Wright (via azspot)
December 2011
5 posts
“The mature follower of Jesus will probably look more like a holy fool than a...”
– Richard Rohr, Christmas 2011
“One time on Hollywood Boulevard I saw a young girl with a baby. It was a crisp...”
– Brian Andreas, Storypeople.com
“I promise you not a moment will be lost as long as I have heart & voice to...”
– Brian Andreas, Storypeople.com
“The Occupy protest movement is perhaps part of this process. Right-wing...”
– Kester Brewin (via azspot)
“Vanity Fair: Who are your heroes in real life?
John Cusack: Let’s go with...”
– Vanity Fair, via Paul Soupiset
November 2011
34 posts
“We are people who need to love, because
Love is the soul’s life, Love is simply...”
– Hafiz (via thefreenomad)
“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not...”
– James Kavanaugh (via thefreenomad)
“First Sunday of Advent
This Advent, I’d like to invite you beyond a merely...”
– Richard Rohr, Adapted from Preparing for Christmas with Richard Rohr
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude...”
– ― G.K. Chesterton (via bgable)
“The rogues’ gallery of Wall Street crooks, such as Lloyd Blankfein at Goldman...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
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“But now, I get it. People want to go someplace for at least five minutes where...”
– Matt Taibbi (via katiecar)
“If God is an object that makes life meaningful or happy, three things can...”
– Peter Rollins (via azspot)
“The founders never intended indefinite free speech. They assumed that after two...”
– Stephen Colbert, addressing Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s decision to oust Wall Street protesters
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work...”
– Wendell Berry (via chary)
Amen.
(via fcb4)
“Still here! Jesus didn’t need a tent! Gandhi didn’t need a tent! Martin Luther...”
– Occupy Wall Street protester and construction worker JOHNNY RABUSE, greeting protesters returning to Zuccotti Park.
(via the New York Daily News)
“A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum....”
– Robert Reich