Tag: Love

• March 27, 2026

  Where Are We Going?

  When I see a homeless man walk by, I wonder where he’s going. “Hi,” he said. “Hi there,” I said. And this guy walked right past our house. Where did he come from? And where is he going? Where are any of us going? And where did any of us come from? I don’t understand…
• March 10, 2026

  A Defense Of The Prosperity Gospel

  John S. Haller Jr.’s treatment of “the prosperity gospel” in his book The History of New Thought: From Mind Cure to Positive Thinking and the Prosperity Gospel (2012) shows all the marks of the contemporary academy’s small-mindedness. Of course, it would be easy to say, with Haller, that the 1920s (“the roaring twenties”) effected a…
• February 24, 2026

  If A Man Takes Your Goods, Do You Help Him Lift The Rest?

  In the Apophthegmata Patrum, we read about Abba Macarius (c. 300-391), a Desert Father living in Egypt: Abba Macarius while he was in Egypt discovered a man who owned a beast of burden engaged in plundering Macarius’ goods. So he came up to the thief as if he was a stranger and he helped him…
• February 23, 2026

  The Moth & Us

  The moth was fluttering its wings wildly, but it couldn’t take off. It kept trying and trying but still nothing. It couldn’t fly and, I feel, it foresaw its death. T.S. Eliot once wrote of the “objective correlative”: a writer describes a situation in such a way as to evoke a particular mood. I’d like,…
• February 13, 2026

  Patanjali’s Method Of Pratipaksha Bhavana

  In Yoga Sutra 2.33, Patanjali offers a compassionate practice to those whose minds are agitated: “When disturbed by negative thoughts, opposite (positive) ones should be thought of.” This is the meaning of the cultivation of the counter-thought. Claude (Anthropic) gives us the Sanskrit line thus: Sanskrit: vitarka-bādhane pratipakṣa-bhāvanam The Sanskrit Terms: Vitarka = negative thoughts, doubts, wayward thoughts, disturbing…