If you ask people what is sacred to them, after some consideration, they’ll offer an answer: family, tranquility, freedom, peace,...
Once a year, often on a day determined by religion and tradition, the community of the living commemorates the community...
“I made it for you!” my little three-year-old friend says shyly. Delighted, I stoop down to her level, and we take time to examine the precious gift, a string with a seashell on it. I ask her questions about it, and then, looking into her eyes, I thank her. She...
On Christmas Eve, a child is born into the world. Not only that—a star rises. He is the star that...
Growth in knowledge enables us to perceive the weaknesses of other people much more clearly than before and, depending on...
We, the living, are always present for the deceased. We should never forget that. Their world encompasses ours; our world is entirely a part of theirs. For most of us, though, the latter is not a perceived reality. This is because, in everyday life, we do not normally experience that...
I Not being reconciled with oneself is a well-known condition. It describes our usual relationship with ourselves. We should not...
To become friends, we need to get to know each other. This is the point invoked in the famous scene...
The fundamental difference between spiritual and sensory perception is apparent: with the latter, it is always possible—due to external solidity—to distinguish between what I am and what an object is. With spiritual perception it isn’t so easy, at first, to distinguish that which originates from one’s own spirituality and that...
Conscience and devotion are two themes that weave into Saint John’s—but how do they weave into each other? When, in...
King Lear is not an ordinary royal drama but—like Hamlet and Macbeth—a tragedy with archetypal images. Behind these images, historical...
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