What Contemplation Is and its Effects (Quotes Vol. 11)

From Facebook, Instagram, and X this week: You must be simple, affable, and kind… Be human, charitable, and always joyful. You must always laugh, even in saying the simplest things. I, as you can see, laugh all the time, showing my bad teeth. Laughter sets the other person at ease. It brings people closer together and helps them better …

Why Does it Take a Sense of Humour to Love God?

At one point, I avidly read Henri Bergson (1859–1941), a French secular Jewish philosopher, who taught Jacques and Raïssa Maritain. My memory’s a bit odd. I probably don’t remember the “right” books by him. And the ones that I remember, I probably don’t remember very well. The book by Henri Bergson that sticks out most …