The Deepest Bow to God is Awe

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Religion begins with the sense of the ineffable, with the awareness of a reality that discredits our wisdom, that shatters our concepts. It is the ineffable with which we must begin. ~ Abraham Heschel One reason I was drawn to Rabbi Abraham Heschel's Read more [...]

A Sense of Significant Being ~ A Life-Line

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: "It takes three things to attain a sense of significant being: God A Soul and a Moment. And the three are always there. Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy." Abraham Joshua Heschel ♣ ARE YOU INTERESTED Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 4

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Integrity [ in–teg–ri-tee ] Part 4, The righteous walk in integrity— happy are the children who follow them. ~ Proverbs 20:7 Cease to do evil. Learn to do good. Make justice your home forever. ~ Isaiah 1:16 If the main arbiter for Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 3

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Integrity [ in-teg-ri-tee ] Part 3, Saturday's Screed Only one question is worthy of supreme anxiety: How to live in a world pestered with lies and remain unpolluted, how not to be stricken with despair, not to flee but to fight and Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 2

Posted on October 28, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Integrity [ in–teg–ri-tee ] Part 2 Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says Read more [...]

“I Was Wondering if You— “

Posted on October 22, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

We’re all just walking each other home. ~ Ram Dass I have never been anywhere but sick. In a sense sickness is a place more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it’s always a place where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is Read more [...]

Just Wondering

Posted on April 15, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

[Humankind] will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder. ~ Read more [...]

Compassion — The Index of Our Humanity

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

To be a man or woman of compassion is to be present to those in pain in such a way that they feel safe enough, if they choose, to reveal their wound to us. Then after reverently receiving their storied-pain, we reverently reach out to touch them, at times Read more [...]

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 2/4

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

~ continued from yesterday (since this is written as a conversation, you may want to hit "previous" and read the last paragraph or two) When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. ~ John O'Donohue Authentic faith leads Read more [...]

Patience . . . or Maybe Not

Posted on August 16, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Patience, a quality of holiness, may be sloth in the soul when associated with the lack of righteous indignation. ~ Abraham Heschel Read more [...]

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