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Compassion
The World Of Love
If you are going to deal with the issue of health in the modern world, you are going to have to deal with much absurdity.
March 2018
Sunbeams
March 2018Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
Sunbeams
December 2017True prophets sometimes, false prophets always, have fanatical adherents.
Jailhouse Blues
Henry Robinett On Teaching Inmates To Play The Guitar
These guys are allowed almost no dignity. As far as I’m concerned, their sentence is their punishment. They aren’t supposed to be treated cruelly on top of that.
October 2017
One Of Us
Once upon a time there was an abbot of a monastery who was very good friends with the rabbi of a local synagogue. It was Europe, and times were hard. . . .
September 2017
Sunbeams
September 2017It’s not enough to be gentle with those who are like us if we can’t find it in ourselves to be kind with those who are less fortunate than we are. The true test of our compassion lies in our ability to have concern for those least like ourselves.
Years Later, I Go Back To Thank You
I walk past the Kwik Trip where you found me / in the dumpster, tunneling for canned food. / Past the VFW where you bought us burgers, / newspaper now taped over the windows.
June 2017The Good Samaritan
from The Gospel Of Luke
Once a certain scribe stood up and said, “Rabbi, what must I do to gain eternal life?”
June 2017
Sunbeams
June 2017Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave — and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.
Transforming The Heart Of Suffering
In fact, one’s whole attitude toward pain can change. Instead of fending it off and hiding from it, one could open one’s heart and allow oneself to feel that pain, feel it as something that will soften and purify us and make us far more loving and kind.
November 2016
