Condemning someone to eternity in hell, accompanied by countless reprobate and demons, is within the reach of any pious Catholic. Excommunication – basically the exclusion of the religious community from the Catholic Church – represents a condemnation of spiritual darkness….
The intimate certainty that we can alter our destiny was the ruin of the survivors. No one is special. Of course there must be others. I am sure, even after 900 days of darkness. But if there are others they…
I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, eyes – I wonder if It weighs like Mine – Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long – Or did it just begin – I…
People are so caught up in their happiness that they don’t realize I’m not a part of it. I am wandering along the periphery . I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with…
Between us and death there is hardly an instant. For some, that moment lasts for a lifetime, for others, that of a sigh. The end is there and it is inexorable. Schopenhauer, and perhaps also Nietzsche, reasoned that man’s suffering…
