“At heart, hospitality is a helping across a threshold.” Ivan Illich In Dante’s Divine Comedy, Virgil lovingly guides Dante through the hell of denial and the purgatory of illusion, up to a passage of fire that Dante must cross alone, beyond which he becomes...
“Yours is to live it, not to reveal it.” Helen Luke Helen Luke was a very wise woman, deeply grounded in the life of the spirit. I knew Helen during the last two years of her life. During that time she was a mentor to me. These words are from our last conversation....
Dreams are candles to help us through the dark. Once used, they have to melt. Very often, we define ourselves by what we want or dream of. I want to be an actor or a musician or president or a grandmother. I dream of being famous, of going down in history, of being a...
