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Religion is pointing toward the moon

Joan D. Chittister

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Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.
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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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Our role in life is to bring the light of our own souls to the dim places around us.
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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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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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Find the thing that stirs your heart and make room for it
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To insist on living until we die may be one of life's greatest virtues.
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I celebrate myself, the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating the self — our achievements, our experiences, our existence. Imagine what it would be like to look into the mirror and say, as God taught us, That's good.
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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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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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We don't change as we get older - we just get to be more of what we've always been.
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There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life, rather than one of the most satisfying - which it should be. Tye danger of old age is that we may start acting old.
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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 anything diminishes a person, it is the cancer of constant complaining.
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It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us.
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prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it is certainly possible to pray without having a spirituality at all. How do you know? 'Am I becoming kinder?' is a good place to start.
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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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We must learn to pray out of our weaknesses so that God can become our strength.
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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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Hospitality is simply love on the loose.
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