Hamid

“When modern culture tries to replace sin with ideas like error or insensitivity, or tries to banish words like "virtue", "character", "evil" and "vice" altogether, that doesn't make life any less moral; it just means we have obscured the inescapable moral core of life with shallow language.”
― David Brooks

“...mystery isn't something that you cannot understand -- it is something that you can endlessly understand!”
― Richard Rohr, The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation

“...the dark side of individualism is a centering on the self, which both flattens and narrows our lives, makes them poorer in meaning, and less concerned with others or society.”
― Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Authenticity

“When you are concerned with either attacking or defending, manipulating or resisting...you cannot be contemplative. When you are preoccupied with enemies, you are always dualistic.”
― Richard Rohr, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See