Sublime

Was it not possible to run a state on principles after all?

his fundamental conviction has remained constant: the horrors of late twentieth-century life, whether Nazi, communist, racist, nationalist, or utilitarian in expression, are the products of defective concepts of the human person.

That we do preserve something of that primary simplicity that poets and philosophers can still indeed in some sense say an Universal Prayer, that we live in a large and serene world under a sky that stretches paternally over all the peoples of the earth, that philosophy and philanthropy are truisms in a religion of reasonable men, all that we do mo

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Ibn ‘Arabi, a prominent thirteenth-century religious thinker, philosopher, and poet known simply as “the greatest master.”

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There is no more effective way to prepare children for lives animated by love than to provide them with a loving childhood.