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I remembered the first time the search occurred to me. I came to myself under a chindolea bush. ~ Binx Bolling (The Moviegoer by Walker Percy)
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- Nathan O'Halloran, SJ
- underachindolea [at] gmail [dot] com
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Something to Ponder
Better or Better Off by Peter Maurin
The world would be better off,
If people tried to become better.
And people would become better,
If they stopped trying to be better off.
For when everybody tries to become better off,
Nobody is better off.
But when everybody tries to become better,
Everybody is better off.
Everybody would be rich,
If nobody tried to be richer.
And nobody would be poor,
If everybody tried to be the poorest.
And everybody would be what he ought to be,
If everybody tried to be
What he wants the other fellow to be.
The world would be better off,
If people tried to become better.
And people would become better,
If they stopped trying to be better off.
For when everybody tries to become better off,
Nobody is better off.
But when everybody tries to become better,
Everybody is better off.
Everybody would be rich,
If nobody tried to be richer.
And nobody would be poor,
If everybody tried to be the poorest.
And everybody would be what he ought to be,
If everybody tried to be
What he wants the other fellow to be.
Nathan's Current Reading
- Discovering Girard, by Michael Kirwan
- The New Testament and the People of God, by N.T. Wright
- God After Darwin, by John Haught
- Teilhard de Chardin: The Man and His Meaning, by Henri de Lubac
Pope Benedict XVI
St. Ignatius Loyola
Bl. Jacinta of Fatima
Bl. Miguel Pro, SJ
Elijah
Joan Andrews-Bell
Elizabeth Anscombe
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day and Tamar
Father Henri de Lubac, SJ
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mary Ann Glendon
Walker Percy
Ignatius J. Reilly
Archbishop Oscar Romero
Charles Taylor
J.R.R. Tolkien
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