Joseph Burgess

And the Lord said: “Had I found a greater sinner than you, I would have given it to him”. Thus, the Pope continued, “the great sinner was chosen to tend the People of God, to ‘feed’ the People of God: it makes us think”.

Blessed are the meek, the gentle, the nonviolent—they will inherit the earth. A life of nonviolence leads to oneness with creation and her creatures.

By “living on the edge of the inside” I mean building on the solid Tradition (“from the inside”) from a new and creative stance (“on the edge”)

Francis emphasized an imitation and love of the humanity of Jesus, and not just the worshiping of his divinity . That is a major shift.

Francis called this inner nakedness “poverty.”

It was being Jesus more than just worshiping Jesus

Sacks may be a billionaire, but even in this transactional town, there’s a more valuable currency: attention.

Curation is care. It says: I thought about this. I chose it. I didn’t just repost it. I didn’t just regurgitate the trending take. I took the time to decide what was worth passing on.

And that’s what real taste is: a deep internal coherence. A way of filtering the world through intuition that’s been sharpened by attention.