If you could only carry one sentence from this passage into the rest of your life, which would it be, and what would you have to give up to live by it?

Theme: core_values · card 1/4 · 2026-05-13

From this point of view we may admit the human charity which we find in all saints, and the great excess of it which we find in some saints, to be a genuinely creative social force, tending to make real a degree of virtue which it alone is ready to assume as possible. The saints are authors, _auctores_, increasers, of goodness.

— William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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Which kind of practice would you take up this month if you took this passage as instruction?

Theme: growth · card 2/4 · 2026-05-13

Verily, I divine you well, my disciples: ye strive like me for the bestowing virtue. What should ye have in common with cats and wolves? It is your thirst to become sacrifices and gifts yourselves: and therefore have ye the thirst to accumulate all riches in your soul. Insatiably striveth your soul for treasures and jewels, because your virtue is insatiable in desiring to bestow.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

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What did you notice about purpose today?

Theme: purpose · card 3/4 · 2026-05-13

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What does this passage call the source of life force? Where do yours come from?

Theme: energy · card 4/4 · 2026-05-13

This frame, so slightly clad, was a sort of crystallization around me, and reacted on the builder. It was suggestive somewhat as a picture in outlines. I did not need to go outdoors to take the air, for the atmosphere within had lost none of its freshness. It was not so much within doors as behind a door where I sat, even in the rainiest weather.

— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

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