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Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.
Joan D. Chittister
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If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.
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Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn.
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Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.
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Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.
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To be a presence of perpetual thanksgiving may be the ultimate goal of life. The thankful person is the one for whom life is simply one long exercise in the sacred.
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Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.
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Precisely because of the greatness of God, we don't have to be great at all. Just in awe.
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Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.
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A life of value is not a series of great things well done it is a series of small things consciously done.
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Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can never tolerate lack of status and depth of weakness in the other.
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Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the strange knock at the door, the sudden sight of an unceremoniously blooming flower, an afternoon in the yard, a day of riding the midtown bus. Just to see. Just to notice. Just to be there.
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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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The question is not, do we go to church the question is, have we been converted. The crux of Christianity is not whether or not we give donations to popular charities but whether or not we are really committed to the poor.
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When I get on the internet and hide behind a false identity, and then allow that hiding to free me from the standards of decency, to begin to use language I would never use in front of my mother, all of a sudden, there's nothing between me and you, but worse than that, there's nothing between me and my worst self.
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But we are here to depart from this world as finished as we can possibly become.
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Goodness is a process of becoming, not of being. What we do over and over again is what we become in the end.
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Religion is pointing toward the moon
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Imagine how happy, how holy, life would be if we ever really learn to see beauty.
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