Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.
Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.
(n.) The quality or state of being open.
You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
To learn new things one has to be open and vulnerable..
When you open to the world, the world opens to you.
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than eno...
I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.
As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure.
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done o...
While we must not fall into the gnosticizing trap of seeing the world as only ideal, without any reference to the physical and tangible universe we inhabit, neither should we commit to crass literalis...
I heard a doctor say that the living tend to withdraw emotionally from the dying, thereby driving them deeper into isolation. Not to withdraw takes tremendous strength. To pull back is a temptation; i...
The soul is healed by being with children.
The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life's changes but al...
A squirrel flies in, said Dr. Meescham. This I did not expect at all. It is what I love about life, that things happen which I do not expect. When I was a girl in Blundermeecen, we left the window ope...
Reality is a complex phenomenon, filled with dimensions, not the least of which are two that Christians affirm and understand: the physical and the spiritual. We are invited by Cervantes to enter into...
Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.
When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. Mo...
Let your heart be as big as it can possibly be.
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