Let us stipulate, as lawyers say, that the message of Ecclesiastes 7:15–29 is an unexpectedly weird one to find in… READ MORE
Jaffa put it like this, in a paragraph that distills Lincoln’s mind better than any words not written by Lincoln… READ MORE
“Life is difficult,” as M. Scott Peck so memorably wrote in The Road Less Traveled. How, then, does the wise… READ MORE
The wisdom of ancient Israel—like all common sense—is full of paradoxes. Think, for example, of two well-known English proverbs: “Absence… READ MORE
Greek mythology tells the story of Daedalus and Icarus, a father and his son who were imprisoned on the island… READ MORE
“All we have to do is decide what to do with the time given us.”
~Gandalf
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