Today's Spiritual Lesson

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• Hugo // October 5, 2008 at 4:15 pm

  Ken, forgive my mock erudition, but you’ve synopsized not only “Candide” but also the vast learnings of the 12th Century. The only real Progress, progress that is enduring and not merely fleeting and illusory, is the progress of the individual human soul in communio with other striving souls — not in the collective nor in the polis, but within and amongst. Human beings are fully human only in community; in community are we completed. There is no human Adam without Eve, no Eve without Adam. And no Eden save the Eden within.

  yr Hugo of Saint Victor