The characteristic feature of the great saints is that they get at the very heart of the matter. The most obvious things are invisible because they are concealed in human beings; nothing is harder to evince than what is self-evident. Continue reading
My formula for the greatness of man is amor fati — to change nothing, neither before nor after, throughout all eternity. Not only to bear Necessity, and still less to hide it — all idealism is a lie in the face of Necessity — but to love it. ~ Friedrich … Continue reading
I turned myself to other things, and I saw the oppressions that are done under the sun, and the tears of the innocent, and they had no comforter; and they were not able to resist their violence, being destitute of help from any. And I praised the dead rather than the living: And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun. Continue reading
Not all men are in the same condition, and all are not led or disposed to a knowledge of the truth in the same way. For some are brought to a knowledge of the truth by signs and miracles; others are brought more by wisdom Continue reading
What a shame that one must give up life. I was finally getting used to it. ~ Charles Peguy If you do not meditate on death upon waking in the morning, your entire morning will be wasted; if you do not meditate on death at noon, your entire afternoon will … Continue reading
The universe of Being is the tour de force of physics and mathematics. However, it is a universe without love, without life, without consciousness, and without moral life. Those are all mysteries without explanation for science. Nevertheless, the scientist himself experiences all those things. Continue reading
these are the gifts of the Holy Spirit:
We must be ready for a profound event in the divine order, toward which we are marching with an accelerated speed that must strike all observers. Terrible oracles already announce that the time has come. Continue reading
Omnipotence does not mean power to do absurdities. The compulsion of another’s will is such an absurdity, and therefore no real omnipotence could force such a compulsion. Continue reading
There are two kinds of teaching: the speech of day and the knowledge of night, i.e., verbal teaching and direct inspiration. Those who rely only on knowledge based on evidence and reason are afraid of the dark. Continue reading