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“We’re living in a time now when opinion is becoming as rigid and belligerent as religion and faith—so that’s another reason to keep quiet about most things.”—Leonard Cohen, all of nineteen years ago. Silence became his most eloquent speech.

The ineradicable artist (and devoted husband) who worked so had to document our imperiled planet--and to protect it--is gone. But Sebastiao Salgado's work (and Wim Wenders' portrait of him) will always be with us.

Each of us is defined at heart by the questions that we ask; the answers we find are almost beside the point.

For three straight years recently, Burma, not one of the world’s wealthiest nations, placed at the top of the world’s Charity index. One of the many reasons we should support an uncommonly blue-skied and open-hearted people as they struggle against one oppression after another.

We spend so much time trying to find our purpose when the only purpose we can trust is the one that finds us.

“We live like gods,” notes Richard Powers. “But very forgetful gods. Very amnesiac and babyish gods.”

“Tilda cares nothing for the future and has, as a result, a great capacity for happiness”—Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore.

Certainty lies on the far side of humanity, and to embrace it is to build a fortress that the winds in time will overturn.

“Enter eagerly into the treasure-house that lies within you,” wrote St. Isaac the Syrian, “and so you will see the treasure-house of heaven.”

More important than finding out who you are may be finding out who you are not and in fact cutting through the illusion of a self.

“Praying was a way to interrupt your own habitual thinking,” says a nun in Stone Yard Devotuonal. “It’s admitting yourself into otherness.”

Sinner's victory over Djokovic today is an almost perfect reverse of Djokovic's 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 victory over Sinner in Wimbledon two years ago. In that match, Djokovic was described as "majestic." Now that adjective falls on Sinner. Such joy to see two champions playing so well.

Let us remember that you don’t have to be lost to be found. Vulnerability is not the only key to the Kingdom.

It's never divinity that creates religion; only human, all too humans.

“House is so far from Home, since my father died”-_Emily Dickinson, 1875.

“It is what you read when you don’t have to,” observed Oscar Wilde, endless source of surreptitious wisdom, “that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”

Faith is not a belief but a knowledge; a parent doesn’t, shouldn’t “believe” he or she loves a child.

“You pay a price for being a bridge,” observes the always quotable Richard Rohr. “People walk on you from both sides.”

Our eagerness these days to crown a “GOAT”—the greatest of all time—may show only how limited a sense of greatness we have now, and how truncated a sense of time.

“Your unknowing is not a defect, but your chief perfection,” Eckhart notes.