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Everything we do seeds the future. No action is an empty one.

Joan D. Chittister

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We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.
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There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us.
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Learning to celebrate joy is one of the great practices of the spiritual life.
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We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our strength.
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Life is a thing of many stages and moving parts. What we do with ease at one time of life we can hardly manage at another. What we could not fathom doing when we were young, we find great joy in when we are old. Like the seasons through which we move, life itself is a never-ending series of harvests, a different fruit for every time.
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The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
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Life is not meant to be a burden. Life is not a problem to be solved. It is a blessing to be celebrated.
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Temptations are part of life, part of growing up. We grapple with them often - in some instances for our lifetime - before we come to realize that it is not so much the victory as it is the struggle that is holy.
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To be contemplative we must become converted to the consciousness that makes us one with the universe, in tune with the cosmic voice of God.
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In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
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June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.
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Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.
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Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.
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Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.
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Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts. Hospitality is the way we come out of ourselves. It is the first step towards dismantling the barriers of the world. Hospitality is the way we turn a prejudiced world around, one heart at a time.
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If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the kings acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.
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We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.
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