I was gifted with a couple of books this weekend. (people know me sooo well.) On the bus today, I opened Joan Chittister’s Illuminated Life from Orbis books:
Silence frightens us because it is silence that brings us face to face with ourselves. Silence is a very perilous part of life. It [...]
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silence
Posted in books, contemplation, excerpt on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
quotation of the day
Posted in books, excerpt, quotation on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A pious Jew is not one who worries
about his fellow man’s soul and his
own stomach; a pious Jew worries
about his own soul and his fellow
man’s stomach.
– Rabbi [...]
A reader gets ready to move
Posted in books, brother jacob, personal on May 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in the middle of packing books, boxes and boxes of them. I’m moving from the friary in San Francisco to the one in New York next month. I don’t know what to do with all of these books – one must think of poverty and simplicity of course but reading is a [...]
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