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Self Portrait by Joaquín Sorolla
Letters/Reflections

Let Life Happen to You

You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you,…
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Kneeling Saint by Frederik Bloemaert
Religion

Above and Beyond Knowledge

The source of everything “miraculous” is faith, and moreover a faith so bold that it…
By Lev Shestov
The Wave by Gustave Courbet
Religion

A Fathomless Sea

Like the darkness in a fathomless sea darkened
by wave above wave,
and above it…
By The Qur'an
Religion

The 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
Poetry

Faith

Better trust all, and be deceived,
And weep that trust and that deceiving,
Than doubt…
By Frances Anne Kemble
Prose/Religion

The 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
An impressionist painting of a ship at sea
Reflections

Let a Man Learn…

Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let…
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sacrifice of Isaac by Caravaggio Merisi
Religion

The Child of Promise

We read in those holy books: “And God tempted Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham,…
By Søren Kierkegaard
A painting in a Romanticism style, capturing the profound and resilient nature of the soul
Reflections/Religion

God’s Temple

The decline of the influence of Calvin, or Fenelon, or Wesley, or Channing, need give…
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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