Feast Day of St. Francis De Sales born: 1567–died: 1622
Patron saint of journalists.
Video – Song – Wings of Desire
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them–every day begin the task anew.”
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Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal aims of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
January 21, 2010 Daily Devotional
Meditation Video: Relax Snow – Kokin Gumi – Zen Garden
How many mystics have suffered from feeling abandoned by God! In reality, God didn’t abandon them; it was they who failed to remain conscious of his presence. God never abandons us; it is within our own consciousness that these [...]
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY
Song: We Shall Overcome sung by Mahalia Jackson (video)
Song: Go Down Moses by Louis Armstrong (video)
In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I [...]
WINTER FEAST FOR THE SOUL STARTS TOMORROW
AKAR SANKRANTI/LOHRI HARVEST FESTIVAL (Hindu)
Sankranti means to go from one place to another place (to change direction). It also means one meets another. The time when the sun changes direction from one constellation (of the zodiac) to another is known as Sankranti. It is celebrated in [...]
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“We make for ourselves, in truth, our own spiritual world, our own monsters, chimeras, angels, –we make objective what ferments in us. All is marvelous for the poet; all is divine for the saint; all is great for the hero; all is wretched, miserable, ugly, bad for the base and sordid soul. The bad [...]
“The rule of no realm is mine, but all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in [...]
