Browse Topics
Christianity
Sunbeams
December 1979One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self: of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.
Sunbeams
August 1979As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
Facing The Struggle
(Part One)
I find myself angry and determined. I do want to know why so much money is poured into trying to discover the cause of cancer and so little into experimentation with other forms of treatment which give more responsibility to the patient, and which help the patient to believe in her own ability to mend disease.
March 1979Vision In Black
And cope. I was to hear that again and again. It was multi-faceted, that word. It meant endurance, it expressed discipline — a psychological gymnastics involving stretching, reaching, bending, stooping, doing whatever was necessary to maintain the standards.
December 1978Different Drummers
Book Review
Brother to a Dragon Fly is first and foremost the story of Joe Campbell, but as the book proceeds, it seems to become a history of the civil rights movement. Will Campbell’s unadorned style is at its most effective when reciting those events both moving and terrifying.
February 1978Zen Plums
The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflection
The water has no mind to receive their image.
— Zenrin Kushu
September 1977