Eric Scheske

"The tongue requires a strict guard over it, by reason of the inclination we have of talking about everything agreeable to our senses." Lorenzo Scupoli

"The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy." Marshall McLuhan

I don't write many reviews, but this stunner of a movie deserves a brief mention. Van Helsing may be the worst movie I've ever seen. It's a 135 minute trailer. There is a plot, I guess, or two plots, or possibly five plots, none

"I believe that the purpose of pornography is to produce excitement in the human mind not by the depiction of nudity or even of sexuality but by the depiction of human degradation." John Lukacs

"One of the things that make pornography so damnable, in my view, is its humorlessness." Joseph Epstein

The other four guys got to the bar first. Scott was putting money in the jukebox. The regulars at the bar were giving him dirty looks. "What the heck," Scott said as he came and sat down. "You see those decrepits at the bar? They were looking

The nineteenth century Russian story, The Candid Narrations of a Pilgrim to His Spiritual Father, tells the story of a poor man with a withered arm who reads St. Paul's instruction to pray without ceasing. Thessalonians 5:17. He wonders how a person can do this. He seeks

"A man who is angry, even if he were to raise the dead, is not acceptable to God." Agathon

"There is nothing gayer than true wisdom, nothing jollier, more playful, or--I could almost say--more madcap." Montaigne

Followers have consistently sought silence and stillness. They are the treasures sought by the monastic life, whether it be the monasticism of the mysterious, math-loving Pythagoreans of ancient Greece; the Jewish Essenes from the time of Christ; Buddhist monasticism; or Christian monasticism from its inception in the fourth century.