Mastodawn

Islam teaches that the right hand shouldn't always know what the left hand gives, humility in generosity. #Islam #Charity #Humility

Sanjay Mohindroo 1d ago

Stay open to feedback, even when it feels uncomfortable. Growth often begins where pride ends. #PersonalGrowth #Leadership #Success #Mindset #SelfDevelopment #ContinuousLearning #GrowthMindset #Wisdom #Humility #Learning
https://stayingalive.in/thought-of-the-day/the-freedom-hidden-inside.html

A Polymath Christian 1d ago

The Men Without Monuments: A Biblical Perspective

The men remembered by monuments did not spend their lives demanding recognition. They earned it. Scripture teaches the same principle: God honors the humble and opposes the proud. In an age obsessed with self-promotion, that lesson may be more important than ever.

https://polymathchristian.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/the-men-without-monuments-a-biblical-perspective/

Carmelite Quotes 2d ago

Quote of the day, 23 June: St. Edith Stein

For some weeks, I have returned to philosophical work and have a big task ahead for which I lack much, very much, of what is necessary to accomplish it. Were I not able to trust in the blessing of holy obedience and in the knowledge that the Lord can accomplish something through a totally weak and incapable tool when he wishes to do so, I would have to give up the race.

So now I do what I can, and allow myself to recoup courage before the tabernacle when it has been crushed by the erudition of other people.

Saint Edith Stein

Letter 204 to Mother Petra Brüning, O.S.U.
23 June 1935

Note: ICS Publications notes that Saint Edith Stein’s “big task” was preparing her work Potency and Act for publication. It is the second of three works in which Edith said she endeavored to fulfill her “proper mission” in philosophy, her “life’s task”: relating the phenomenology of her teacher Edmund Husserl and the scholasticism of St. Thomas Aquinas. But more than “critically comparing” the two ways of thinking, she wished to “fuse” them into her own “philosophical system,” searching for that perennial philosophy lying “beyond ages and peoples, common to all who honestly seek truth.”

Stein, E 1993, Self-Portrait in Letters, 1916-1942, Koeppel, J (trans.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: Father Lawrence Lew, O.P. captures this image of Eucharistic adoration at Saint Jean Baptiste parish in New York City. (Some rights reserved)

#BlessedSacrament #discouragement #humility #obedience #StEdithStein

The Skeptic's Kaddish 3d ago

Grateful, or: Ordinary days

A Sijo

grateful for ordinary days grateful they endure so long; unaware of the thin threads holding reality fast; what seems so solid from up close rests on just-barely enough

What Do You See 346

For WDYS, Sadje offers us a photo by Ilia Bronskiy (Unsplash) of a person lying on a stone embankment beside the Limmat River in Zürich, Switzerland while a passenger boat glides past and pedestrians gather along the opposite shore on a bright day.

As always, Sadje is eagerly awaiting our responses!

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!