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Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it

Joan D. Chittister

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I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.
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To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away until the tiny world for which we ourselves are responsible begins to reflect the raw beauty that is God.
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It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me.
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We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.
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We have learned that the things we amassed to prove to ourselves how valuable, how important, how successful we were, didn't prove it at all. In fact, they have very little to do with it. It's what's inside of us, not what's outside of us that counts.
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Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.
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If anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.
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