Coping with Reality

In real life people disappoint you. They are cruel, and life is cruel. I think there is no win in life. Reality is a very painful, tough thing that you ...

No Place for Faith

My break with faith occurred in me as it did and still does among people of our social and cultural type. As I see it, in most cases, it happens like ...

Doubt Is Natural

We are born questioners. Look at the wonderment of a little child in its eyes before it can speak. The child's great word when it begins to speak ...

When Another Stumbles

If you see another stumble or fall, let your first thought be that, of all men, you are most likely to stumble or fall in that same manner.

Falling Down and Getting Up Again

I heard once of an Italian peasant woman who happened to bump into a monk who lived in a monastery high on a hill above her village. Since she bumped ...

Calling Good Bad, Bad Good

In the mass-media age, journalism is more than the transmission of neutral information: It traffics in the kind of information and spectacle calculated ...

What Men and Women Talk About

Men and women don't necessarily want to discuss the same subjects, according to a recent poll of 1,000 adults by Bruskin Associates.

The leading discussion ...

Grave Talk: No Glib Comments

When people started fearing death in earnest, they stopped talking about it.

God Wants To Give Best

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not ...

Knowledge of Our Neediness

In our more honest moments, all of us know what needy people we are.