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I write lists. Or I read. Or do the dishes and come back. Or find a phrase I like and write a few sentences about it.
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Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
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2009
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Make a List: How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts
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Word by Word: A Daily Spiritual Practice
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When Poets Pray
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What's in a Phrase?: Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause
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2014
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Where the Eye Alights: Phrases for the Forty Days of Lent
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A Long Letting Go: Meditations on Losing Someone You Love
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In Quiet Light
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2000
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A Faithful Farewell: Living Your Last Chapter with Love
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2015
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Drawn to the Light
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2003
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“Isn't it the task of the Holy Spirit to introduce some madness and intoxication into the world? Why this propensity for balance and safety? Don't we all long for one moment of raw risk, one moment of divine madness?”
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“According to Father Ron Rolheiser, “American culture is the most powerful narcotic this planet has ever perpetrated.”5 By keeping us focused on food, pleasure, entertainment, and comfort, it keeps us from developing spiritual depth, personal integrity, character, concern for the poor, or community life.”
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| Discovering the writings of the Desert Fathers as a young adult, I was awakened and enchanted by their winsome, surprising, sometimes sidelong wisdom. This book about the Desert Mothers is a lovely introduction to another group of early saints, simil ...more | |
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| Of the many ways to write memoir, one of my favorite is in brief chapters that alight on learning moments, moments of awareness, tipping-point moments tectonic shifts that change the inner landscape. This one is like that. Wagamese's memories, some o ...more | |
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| The words that come to mind as I think back over the story Arthur Boers tells in this book about abuse in a strict Dutch Calvinist family are "sanity" and "grace." He deals with scenes and themes that might easily be (and often have been) oversimplif ...more | |
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| Before reading this compelling story about German POWs brought to Michigan as replacement farm workers during World War II I knew very little about such programs. Drawing on stories from her own family history, the author, whom I had the delight of m ...more | |
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“The story is told of Mother Theresa that when an interviewer asked her. "What do you say when you pray?" she answered, "I listen." The reporters paused a moment, then asked, "Then what does God say?" and she replied, "He listens." It is hard to imagine a more succinct way to get at the intimacy of contemplative prayer.”
― Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
― Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
“A good conversationalist directs attention, inspires, corrects, affirms, and empowers others. It is a demanding vocation that involves attentiveness, skilled listening, awareness of one’s own interpretive frames, and a will to understand and discern what is true.”
― Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
― Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
“Truth-telling is difficult because the varieties of untruth are so many and so well disguised. Lies are hard to identify when they come in the form of apparently innocuous imprecision, socially acceptable slippage, hyperbole masquerading as enthusiasm, or well-placed propaganda. These forms of falsehood are so common, and even so normal, in media-saturated, corporately controlled culture that truth often looks pale, understated, alarmist, rude, or indecisive by comparison. Flannery O’Connor’s much-quoted line ‘You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd’ has a certain prophetic force in the face of more and more commonly accepted facsimiles of truth - from PR to advertising claims to propaganda masquerading as news.”
― Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
― Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
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“What geomancy reads what the windblown sand writes on the desert rock? I read there that all things live by a generous power and dance to a mighty tune; or I read there all things are scattered and hurled, that our every arabesque and grand jete is a frantic variation on our one free fall.”
― An American Childhood: A Poignant Memoir About Parents and Passion in 1950s Pittsburgh
― An American Childhood: A Poignant Memoir About Parents and Passion in 1950s Pittsburgh
“The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.”
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“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
― Gratitude
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
― Gratitude
“Never in the known history of man has a people or nation stockpiled weapons and in the end not used them. But if we use the weapons we have stockpiled it will be the end of nations and peoples if not the end of the whole race. Never has the human family so urgently needed a transformation of consciousness. Those who devote themselves to contemplative meditation are performing a most basic and loving service. It is a very real response to the call to love and to act.”
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“But somehow, even when we are grown up and “adjusted,” everything we do and are—our handwriting, the vibrato of our voice, the way we handle the bow or breathe into the instrument, our way of using language, the look in our eyes, the pattern of whorling fingerprints on our hand—all these things are symptomatic of our original nature.”
― Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
― Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
