To Be Moved or Not to Be Moved

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious person's attitude toward history and nature. ~ Abraham Heschel My original passion for the writings (not to mention the life) of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on whose works I wrote Read more [...]

What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? ~ No. 1

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

PART 1 of 2 Everything terrifying is, in its deepest being, something helpless that wants our help. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear. ~ Read more [...]

Sometime in Your Life ~ A Life-Line

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong. Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these. ~ Siddhārtha Gautama ♣ GOODPEOPLE Read more [...]

Compassion — The Index of Our Humanity

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

To be a man or woman of compassion is to be present to those in pain in such a way that they feel safe enough, if they choose, to reveal their wound to us. Then after reverently receiving their storied-pain, we reverently reach out to touch them, at times Read more [...]

Consenting to Be Moved, Daring to Respond – A Life-Line

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: It is in our consenting to be moved, our conscious awareness of collaborating with the present moment, and in both our duty and daring to respond lest we betray our own humanity that the mystic and the prophet meet, the one Read more [...]

I Am a Traveler, too. And You?

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

What would it mean if we led with compassion? This is what I'm chewing on this weekend. By led I'm not referring to showing the way, guiding by example or escorting others. I'm talking about how we present ourselves, how we step out each morning, encounter Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 11/13/18

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

"Stories give coherence to the confusion of our experience." ~ Karen Armstrong THE SEED OF COMPASSION “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. . . This is the interrelated structure of reality.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. There Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 6/5/18

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Two travelers set out on a pilgrimage from opposite ends of a vast desert. One from the eastern edge heading west and the other from the western edge heading east. One pilgrim set out for a distant town called Happiness that was said to be located Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Kindness

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Kindness [kahynd-nis] “What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver “The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your Read more [...]

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