Lent is For Learning to Taste Things

Lent is For Learning to Taste Things

It might seem we cannot change how things taste to us. But our wants—which determine our pleasures and pains—come under our control. It is our challenge and our glory to strive to bring our wants and tastes into conformity with the truth. Such is the ultimate...
If Desire is Not in Vain

If Desire is Not in Vain

…for at that rate…our desire would be empty and vain.” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics The insights of Aristotle never cease to amaze. Assiduously avoiding rash assumptions and unsupported conclusions, he nonetheless boldly makes claims that lesser minds would not dare...
Learning to Wait

Learning to Wait

“Through delayed fulfillment, good desires grow stronger.” Gregory the Great Almost fifty years ago the famous marshmallow experiment suggested the importance of being able to wait. There are many troubling aspects of the encroachment of today’s...

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