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Quote by Umberto Eco

“What is a saint supposed to do, if not convert wolves?”

Book:How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays

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How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays

This book is a compilation of essays that delve into the intricacies of travel and the unique personal stories that accompany such journeys. The author, through a series of reflective pieces, examines the cultural, emotional, and sometimes humorous aspects of traveling, with a particular focus on the unusual and unexpected encounters that can arise when traveling with a salmon. more

Author

Umberto Eco

Italian essayist, scholar, and critic. Umberto Eco is renowned for his unique literary style and profound academic background. His works integrate history, philosophy, literature, and semiotics, with his most famous novel being 'The Name of the Rose'. more

“The modern mind is merely a blank about the philosophy of toleration; and the average agnostic of recent times has really had no notion of what he meant by religious liberty and equality. He took his own ethics as self-evident and enforced them; such as decency or the error of the Adamite heresy. Then he was horribly shocked if he heard of anybody else, Moslem or Christian, taking his ethics as self-evident and enforcing them; such as reverence or the error of the Atheist heresy. And then he wound up by taking all this lop-sided illogical deadlock, of the unconscious meeting the unfamiliar, and called it the liberality of his own mind. Medieval men thought that if a social system was founded on a certain idea it must fight for that idea, whether it was as simple as Islam or as carefully balanced as Catholicism. Modern men really think the same thing, as is clear when communists attack their ideas of property. Only they do not think it so clearly, because they have not really thought out their idea of property.”

Philosophy Religion Morality Ethics Medieval Toleration St Francis

Book:St. Francis of Assisi

Source: St. Francis of Assisi

“May Wisdom’s light bespoke my mind, May Grace’s charity provoke my care; May Heaven’s bounty sustain my soul; May Godly Reason make calm myself.” Prayer of St Francis - Azlander/Second Chances”

St Francis

Author:Gabriel Brunsdon

“Twice in this book Thich Nhat Hanh puts before us a powerful image of Christian legend: In midwinter, St. Francis is calling out to an almond tree, “Speak to me of God!” and the almond tree breaks into bloom. It comes alive. There is no other way of witnessing to God but by aliveness. With a fine instinct, Thich Nhat Hanh traces genuine aliveness to its source. He recognizes that this is what the biblical tradition calls the Holy Spirit. After all, the very word “spirit” means “breath,” and to breathe means to live. The Holy Spirit is the breath of divine life. —Brother David Steindl-Rast”

Buddhism Holy Spirit Divine Life Thich Nhat Hanh St Francis Living Buddha Living Christ

Book:Living Buddha, Living Christ

Source: Living Buddha, Living Christ

“Where Francis self-consciously modeled his actions after the Jesus he met in the Gospels, many later saints read accounts of earlier saints like Francis in order to chart their paths and make their decisions according to what the blessed are supposed to do.”