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A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Scribner

One of the pleasures of writing is that so often I know that there is in fact a word that is perfect for the use I want to put it to, and when I summon it it comes, though I might not have thought of it for years. The old man said to them, “You have read the Scriptures. Saint Anthony From every part of the world, people came to him, even to the innermost part of the desert, seeking cures of the body, mind, and soul; and as they did at Pispir, monks came to him for his sympathy and practical advice. Especially in view of the fact that these things in no way concern the primary purpose of the sacred writings, which is the service of God and the salvation of souls—matters infinitely beyond the comprehension of the common people. Dec 4, 2013 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. 89-90) Or "To put the matter another way, . It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new Whenever a mind is simple, and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, — means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and future into the present hour. Jan 15, 2013 - He was in fact so esteemed by the church that when the Lateran Council under Leo X took up the correction of the church calendar, Copernicus was called to Rome from the most remote parts of Germany to undertake its reform. Jan 4, 2014 - So if you thought Nostradamus was cool, how is this amazing pre-historic poem that accurately predicts the the events of the Old Testament, appearance of Zoroaster, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammad, Shankaracharya, what we see today, The brahmanas told him to arranged for a mlecchayagya, a great sacrifice in which the world's uncivilized meat-eaters would be consumed in the sacred fire Muslims around the world must face Mecca during their daily prayers. Jan 18, 2010 - The story of his life was written by one of Christianity's most renowned leaders, Saint Athanasius the Apostolic who was his disciple and had a very close relationship with him. Jan 7, 2011 - Later, the material evolved again as sacred text met sacred autobiography, in meeting Brother David Steindl-Rast and talking with him of Gratitude and God, and in reading and receiving some of the Torah of a work called The of the Seventh Rebbe of Lubavitch, in which he wrote that the practice of the Modeh Ani prayer with which the Hebrew initiate begins his day is the practice of realization of Yechida She-Be-Nefesh, the Yechida quality of the soul. Apr 11, 2012 - "When I praise anything, I proceed from the assumption that the distinctions available to us in this world are not arrayed between good and bad but between bad and worse." (pg.