David Given Schwarm

egg on a rock

Currently, this week, since the Super Bowl, my eating has been out of control–I am trying to eat three times a day, but I end up having a second dinner when dealing with Cody late at night.

ANNOTATIONS TO GIVE SOME UNDERSTANDING OF THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES WHICH FOLLOW, AND TO ENABLE HIM WHO IS TO GIVE AND HIM WHO IS TO RECEIVE THEM TO HELP THEMSELVES First Annotation. The first Annotation is that by this name of Spiritual Exercises is meant every way of examining one’s conscience, of meditating, of contemplating, of…

35. Two Souls

“Seijo, the Chinese girl,” observed Goso, “had two souls, one always sick at home and the other in the city, a married woman with two children. Which was the true soul?” Mumon’s comment: When one understands this, he will know it is possible to come out from one shell and enter another, as if one were…