if I do not fulfill my heart’s vocation, I suffer. –St. Thomas Aquinas (Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West translated by Daniel Ladinsky, p.144) Love and More This quote is the third stanza of the poem Otherwise the Darkness by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). His soul’s purpose, stated in […]
Throw Yourself like Seed
Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit; sluggish you will not see the wheel of fate that brushes your heel as it turns going by, the man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant. Now you are only giving food to that final pain which is slowly winding you […]