“The best way to avenge yourself is to not be like that.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS

'You can only improve life in yourself by destroying the barriers that divide your life from that of others, and by considering others as yourself, and loving them. By so doing you increase your share of life. You injure your life when you think of it as the only life, and try to add to its welfare at the expense of other lives. By so doing you onl

It is here, precisely here, according to Lonergan, that Jesus revealed the saving power of “the Law of the Cross.” It is really the law of love ready to die rather than hate. It is such love, such refusal to hate, such non-violence that can change things–not immediately but surely. In so loving, in so dying, Jesus reveals how we can stop or break t

Among all sins, there is one which completely opposes the major blessing of human life, which is your love for your brother: there is no worse sin than to destroy this major joy of life, by feeling rage and hatred for your brother. Seneca, a wise man from Rome, said that when you want to escape from your rage, when you feel that it grows, the best