We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion.
T.S. Eliot, East Coker
Tag: Spirituality
Sunday Quote: Where we focus our energies
It is not up to us to believe in God,
but only to not grant our love to false gods.
Simone Weil
Seeing the way takes time
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new.
Yet it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability and that may take a very long time.
And so I think it is with you.
Your ideas mature gradually. Let them grow.
Let them shape themselves without undue haste.
Do not try to force them on as though you could be today what time – that is to say, grace – and circumstances, acting on your own good will – will make you tomorrow.
Teilhard de Chardin
What is prayer
It cannot be put any simpler or more beautiful than this. Just pay attention. And let what we see enrich our inner life.
It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don’t try
to make them elaborate, this isn’t
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.
Mary Oliver, Prayer
We are not our thoughts
We are not our thoughts. Thoughts come and thoughts go.
Unaccompanied thoughts pass quickly.
Thoughts that are thought about become desires.
Desires that are thought about become passions.
Margaret Mary Funk, Thoughts Matter
Slowly making sense of our lives
The art of awareness of God, the art of sensing his presence in our daily lives cannot be learned offhand.
God’s grace resounds in our lives like a staccato. Only by retaining the seemingly disconnected notes comes the ability to grasp the theme.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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