Michal Golis

“We moved from wondering to answering, which has not served us well at all.”
― Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See

“It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion--its message becomes meaningless.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism

“There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Homer & Langley

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
― Michael Ignatieff, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times