My silence is my salvation
I enjoyed reading a fascinating article on silence in the poetry of Thomas Merton and T. S. Eliot (in The Merton Journal 22.1 [2015]). The author, Sonia Petisco, quotes Merton as follows: My life is a...
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Life is on our side
Albert Pinkham Ryder, Resurrection Life is on our side. The silence and the Cross of which we know are forces that cannot be defeated. In silence and suffering, in the heartbreaking effort to be honest...
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Commenting on Wisdom, which in Proverbs 8 is said to be playing in the world and before God at all times, Thomas Merton, in New Seeds of Contemplation, writes: We do not have to go very far to catch...
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Living in a place cluttered with our emptiness
Here are a couple of quotes from Luce Irigaray’s brilliant book Sharing the World. The first one is a beautiful reminder of the gratuity of nature: The light of the stars, the music of the winds, the...
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What is sacred in democracy
Whenever the political climate becomes racist, totalitarian or based on the notion of unity through community, the role of democrats everywhere is no longer to support the preferences of the majority...
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Giant Picnic
On October 8, 2017, the anonymous installation artist known only as JR held a picnic at an enormous table constructed on both sides of the border fence that separates the Mexican city of Tecate from...
View ArticleDas dunkle, fensterlose Verlies seiner selbst
Jeder Gewalttätige ist eingeschlossen in das dunkle, fensterlose Verlies seiner selbst. Friedrich Dürrenmatt, ‘Nächtliches Gespräch mit einem verachteten Menschen’
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