Recovery. Sobriety. Living Wise.
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. As the grandson of Irish immigrants I loved listening to my grandfather offer up his words of wisdom. Grandpa spoke in a deep Irish brogue with delightful, strange inflections. His sentences always ended on a higher note than they began. But what I loved most was the … Continue reading Irish Thought Candles
Destiny’s starting line can be hard to find; sometimes we need to borrow from someone else in our search. This is how I began to discover my own destiny. It was May of 1970 and Joe Thomas was visiting Seattle raising money for the work of the Ecumenical Institute. I’d spent the previous summer studying in Chicago at the Institute and I offered to be … Continue reading Discovering Your Destiny
To read today’s post in its optimal format, please go to the Just A Thought website. Please click here. Sometimes you think you know something, but when you try to explain it you discover that you really have no clear idea of what you mean. That happened to me when I was teaching a college class on great works of literature. We were reading Dante’s “The … Continue reading Living the Virtuous Life (by Joe Nagy)
This post is best viewed from the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “The lamps are different – but the Light is the same.” ~ Rumi While our cultures, traditions, and beliefs may differ, light emanates from the same shared human experience. It’s been said living in a diverse environment — enriches one’s perspectives, broadens one’s horizons, and teaches us that our differences are but … Continue reading Mother India Claims a Son
This post is best viewed from the Just A Thought website. Please click here. “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Compassion recognizes in another what we recognize in ourselves.” ~ Pema Chodrom In all my years no virtue has come to make more sense to me than compassion, the willingness to act for the well-being of … Continue reading Why Compassion?