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“It was supposed to be a cross between the Book of Kells and the Far Side.”

02-Aug-12

http://preferredmode.com/tag/jewelry/ Amazing and weird religious drawings from a band called The Desert Fathers.  Amazing.

Sayings of the Desert Fathers.

13-Sep-09

buy Ivermectin Abbot Pambo questioned Abbot Anthony saying: What ought I to do?  And the elder replied: Have no confidence in your own virtuousness.  Do not worry about a thing once it has been done.  Control your tongue and your belly. An elder said: The reason why we do not get anywhere is that we do not […]

Thomas Merton’s Wisdom of the Desert.

13-Sep-09

From the introduction to his collection of sayings of the Desert Fathers: We cannot do exactly as they did.  But we must be as thorough and as ruthless in our determination to break all spiritual chains, and cast off the domination of alien compulsions, to find our true selves and develop our inalienable spiritual liberty […]