Letters/ReflectionsLet Life Happen to You You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you,… By Rainer Maria Rilke
ReligionAbove and Beyond Knowledge The source of everything “miraculous” is faith, and moreover a faith so bold that it… By Lev Shestov
ReligionA Fathomless Sea Like the darkness in a fathomless sea darkenedby wave above wave,and above it… By The Qur'an
ReligionThe Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred, let me sow… By St. Francis of Assisi
PoetryFaith Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt… By Frances Anne Kemble
Prose/ReligionThe Beloved Once when I was shedding bitter tears, when, dissolved in pain, my hope was melting… By Novalis
Poetry“The day is past and gone” The day is past and gone, The evening shades appear, O may I ever keep… By John Leland
ReflectionsLet a Man Learn… Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let… By Ralph Waldo Emerson
ReligionThe Child of Promise We read in those holy books: “And God tempted Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham,… By Søren Kierkegaard
Reflections/ReligionGod’s Temple The decline of the influence of Calvin, or Fenelon, or Wesley, or Channing, need give… By Ralph Waldo Emerson