life on planet earth on Permanence

Before Seattle resident Edith Macefield died at age eighty-six in 2008, she refused to sell her house to developers for the $1 million they had purportedly offered. Macefield wanted to die at home. Se...

And in this vision, he showed me a little thing, the size of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, and to my mind’s eye it was as round as any ball. I looked at it and thought, ‘What can this be?’...

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

The biblical narrative begins and ends at home. From the Garden of Eden to the New Jerusalem we are hardwired for place and for permanence, for rest and refuge, for presence and protection. We long fo...

The biblical narrative begins and ends at home. From the Garden of Eden to the New Jerusalem we are hardwired for place and for permanence, for rest and refuge, for presence and protection. We long fo...

Father Greg Boyle, founder and director of Homeboy Industries in East Los Angeles, has put together a team of physicians trained to remove the tattoos of ex-gang members. The Service is crucial for th...

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions.

Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

I hope someday that God can explain some of the delays to us……but I’m convinced that one of the things He is teaching me, and all of us, is perseverance. In this day and age of everything being “insta...

Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love ...

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.

Let temporal things serve your use, but the eternal be the object of your desire.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

The essence of building is letting dwell.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

That only is worth my having which I can have forever. That only is worth my grasping which death cannot tear out of my hand.

The three immutable facts: You own stuff. You will die. Someone will get that stuff.

The meaning of creation remains unexplainable so long as the veil covers the eternal Image. This life would be nothing but destiny, this time only sorrow, all love but decay, if the pulse of Being did...

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Reality is what doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it.

If identity is fluid, then to remain still is to die—or worse, to become irrelevant—and so we never cease our frantic movement in the direction we hope, and pray, is forward..

My body continually takes me into place . It is at once agent and vehicle, articulator and witness of being-in-place.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life

Presence is experienced as a unitary whole. Think, for example, about the experience of sitting on the top of a hill, far from the polluting lights of a city, gazing at a dark, starry sky. Unless you ...

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

To be is to be in place.

The mystery of perfection as an aspect of beauty is its transcendence. It points to a glory beyond itself. I knew that when I held my children, I didn’t simply cradle flesh and blood. I held a living ...