Koan #24: Why Koans

Why Koans? A Koan is a path to reflection. Reflection is a path to wisdom. Wisdom is a path to truth. And truth is Christ, who is the path to love. This is why Koans.

Koan #6: What Are These Words

The Catholic Faith, in its majesty and scope, can and has filled a multitude of tomes, and thus this is but the best, though self-admittedly poor, attempt of a simple layman to do it justice by adding a few more pages to its truth.

Koan #1: Nothing New

What that is new can be added to the Truth? Nothing! All one can hope is that he utters something already known in a changed way or brings to light that which was already existent but veiled, and thus reaches the man who, though deaf to the old articulation, is, due to a change in word, tone or phrasing, receptive to the new. Let all these words then be this, and let the hope remain that they bring illumination to some that would otherwise remain in darkness.