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I will be spending the next two months on pilgrimage in Spain, and will not be updating this blog until mid-October. If you wish to follow t...

Hope looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst in them. Hope opens doors where despair closes them. Hope discovers what c...

The sixteenth century mystic, Ignatius of Loyola, said that at the time of his conversion he had no one to turn to for guidance, so the Lord...

The clock is my dictator, I shall not rest. It makes me lie down only when exhausted. It leads me to deep depression. It hounds my soul. ...

No one has yet fully realised the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true educa...

Getting outside of the box can not only be fun, it is sometimes necessary for our survival. That is what survival training is all about. It ...

If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a jo...

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true...

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it f...

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend ...

• Make little things bother you. Don't just let them, MAKE them. • Lose your perspective on things and keep it lost: don't put first...

I asked God to take away my pride, And God said, "No." He said it was not for Him to take away, But for me to give up. I asked God...

A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on each end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in...

This poem was written by Mother Teresa and is engraved on the wall of her home for children in Calcutta. People are often unreasonable, il...