The Vital Question — A Life-Line

Posted on January 11, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Life is: Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. And yet being alive is no answer to the problems of living. To be or not to be is not the question. The vital question is: how to be and how not to be? The tendency to forget Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Asks Brother Po a Question

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

The human face . . . is a synonym for the incarnation of uniqueness. ~ Abraham Heschel To see a face is already to hear ‘You shall not kill.’ Emmanuel Levinas Any human face is a claim on you, because you can’t help but understand the Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on Becoming Whole not Perfect

Posted on February 6, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

One day Brother Weeps was talking about wholeness and holiness, emphasizing that neither has anything to do with perfection. "Perfection, or the preoccupation with it," he said, "which we call perfectionism, is the nemesis of holiness and a misguided Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on Holiness

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Brother Weeps said, “The saints are not those who struggle the hardest nor those who struggle the least, but those who surrender the most. There is still great misunderstanding among most people about what it means to be holy. Too often its depictions Read more [...]

How Brother Weeps Says Goodbye

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Life-Line

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Maybe more than anything else, to be a saint is to know joy. Not happiness that comes and goes with the moments that occasion it, but joy that is always there like an underground spring no matter how dark and terrible the night. Read more [...]

Can I Get an Amen? ~ TUESDAYS WITH STORY — 2/13/18

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Once upon a time a man was walking beside a wide river. He was meditating on the law of the Lord, for he believed that if he kept his mind fixed on spiritual thoughts all the time, he would achieve perfection. Just then his thoughts were broken Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: To bless is to put a bit of yourself into something. It is to make holy, to change something or someone because of your presence. ~ Macrina Wiederkehr Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The art of being human is the art of being whole: wholly related to the whole of reality. The word for this exquisite human response to the manifold in the One is holiness. Far from a diminution Read more [...]

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The Vital Question — A Life-Line

Brother Weeps Asks Brother Po a Question

Brother Weeps on Becoming Whole not Perfect

Brother Weeps on Holiness

How Brother Weeps Says Goodbye

Life-Line

Can I Get an Amen? ~ TUESDAYS WITH STORY — 2/13/18

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