One of C.S. Lewis’s brutal criticisms of “modern intellectuals” in The Abolition of Man: “Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of the chest beneath that makes them seem so.”

THE FOX AND THE SWEET MEMORY OF SIN An old athonite hermit used to tell this story: “Near my cell there grew a wild vineyard. Every autumn the same old fox would come and steal the ripest grapes. I saw her, but I never chased her away. ‘Let her be,’ I said to myself, ‘she too

Holy words get into the body after a while, and they begin to say themselves - Thomas Keating

One of my worst mistakes was thinking that I could touch something evil and rotten and come away unscathed, unaffected. I thought I could manipulate the world as I saw fit, and discard the unpleasant pieces I didn't like. But everything that you touch transforms you, for better

Sola scriptura means that part of the iceberg is above the water. It does not mean that the part of the iceberg we can see is the whole iceberg.

Found the true answer to “how to improve birth rates”

Город Зеро, Gorod Zero, 1989 I discovered this film in 1991 and used it with clients for decades to understand concepts that are hidden. In every situation I have been called into—I have made these discoveries. Today the entire AI world is operating like this. This film was

It’s so over / were so back

The POINT of forms (dancing, music, peotry, liturgy) is to solve coordination, which lets cognition recede to the background, and brings other experiences to the foreground Cognition is one type of experience. It’s one that lots of people like, but its greedy. THERE ARE OTHER

It’s hard to overstate how many problems are downstream of encouraging women to have detailed expectations about how childbirth will go. Like trying to have expectations about how and when you will sneeze.

Matthew Mazza “We have experienced various forms of totalitarianism that openly denied Christian principles. There has been the totalitarianism of the left, which tried to outflank Christianity; and there as been the totalitarianism of the right, like Nazism, which found Christianity too soft

“I can’t personally understand it, therefore it is inexplicable”

“I could have done more. This regret will follow me to my death."

“We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them

The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from Him. If we get rid of that thought, our troubles will be greatly reduced. - Thomas Keating

Ben Patton Yes, it is a huge problem. I think most people can only identify some kinds of sin reliably. Sadly, those are the ones we feel most confident we could “stop doing” if we really wanted to, things that are clearly immoral, or hurt ourselves or others. This makes it all the harder…