Pilgrim March
Thoughts on Life as a Spiritual Journey
Quotes
Now I Become Myself
A poem by May Sarton in the interim of a rather post less blog season: Now I Become Myself Now I become myself. It’s taken Time, many years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people’s faces, Run madly, as if Time were there, Terribly old, crying a warning, “Hurry, you will [...]
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Despair is the Extreme of Self-Love
From Merton’s New Seeds of contemplation (emphasis is from the author): Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost. In every man there is hidden some root [...]
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Car Talk Prayer of the Day
Here’s the Car Talk Prayer of the day: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I whack who annoy me today. They promised this would help me find peace in my everyday life. [...]
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Kierkegaard on Doubt (of the Ascension)
“So some have doubted. But then in turn there were some who sought to refute doubt with reasons. As a matter of fact, the connection was actually this: first of all they tried to demonstrate the truth of Christianity with reasons or by advancing reasons in relations to Christianity. And the reasons fostered doubt and [...]
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