Thomas Merton on Frustration
To hope is to risk frustration. Therefore, make up your mind to risk frustration. Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything. Thomas Merton. New Seeds of Contemplation. p. 104
Glorious Lord I Give You Greeting!
Glorious Lord I give you Greeting! Patrick Thomas 10th or 11th Century. …… Glorious Lord, I give you greeting! Let the church and the chancel praise you. Let the chancel and the church praise you. Let the plain and the…
Quoted by Brian McLaren
“Never underestimate your power to be wrong.” Quoted by Brian Maclaren
Sabbath
Sabbath: “One of the specific choices among the values of the christian community is the embracing of time instead of space. We must return to the question of how we in our busy lives can afford to spend a whole…
A provocative "co-incidence!"
A provocative “co-incidence!” Andrea Kastner gave me a book to read during recovery. I started early on but it was dense and so was I! Now I am reading, Out of Babylon (2010), by one of my very favourite authors,…
This truth I firmly hold…
This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding: my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world. Anthony de Mello, Wellsprings, p. 221
Life is Meditation
Untimately, you will find that if life is the real meditation practice, then everything and everybody in your life becomes your teacher, and every moment and occurrence is an opportunity for practice and for seeing beneath the surface appearance of…
How did the rose…
How Did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its Beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being, Otherwise, We all remain Too Frightened.