Activity and Contemplation
“Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.”
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (Italian Dominican Friar, Theologian and Philosopher, 1225-1274)
“Introduction To Saint Thomas Aquinas” (Thomas Aquinas, Anton C. Pegis)
The Sacred World
It’s valuable to see that the insights of the Eastern nondual and mystical traditions have also been talked about in the Western Churches since the early Middle Ages, and probably even before that. Yet many of our current generation of theologians seem to have forgotten!
“God’s power is in every natural thing, since God is in all things by the divine essence, presence, and power.”
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (Italian Dominican Friar, Theologian and Philosopher, 1225-1274)
“Sheer Joy: Conversations With Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality” (Matthew Fox)
Don’t Ignore Wrongs Done to Others
“To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.”
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (Italian Dominican Friar, Theologian and Philosopher, 1225-1274)
Courage
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
–Saint Thomas Aquinas (Italian Dominican Friar, Theologian and Philosopher, 1225-1274)
