We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.
What we have to be is what we are.
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)
Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.
And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.
If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.
I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home.
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.
The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God's love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God.
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can discover a form of prayer in which there is effectively no distraction. My whole life becomes a prayer. My whole silence is full of prayer. The world of silence in which I am immersed contributes to my prayer.
Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.
Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
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