God

“My God is me. Whatever I regain is mine by right. This is the source of all my strength and pride.” – Adam

The Eye with which I see God

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Oct 052009
 

“The Eye with which I see God is the same Eye with which God sees me”

Meister Eckhart

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This Attention

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Nov 042007
 

“Our search for the ultimate meaning of our lives is not a matter of a particular intelligence, or some special effort, or even exceptional means. Rather, finding the ultimate truth is like discovering something beautiful along one’s path. One sees and recognizes it, if one is attentive. The issue then, is this attention.”

Father Luigi Giussani

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The Church

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Nov 042007
 

“Just as God’s will is creation and is called ‘the world’ so His intention is the salvation of men and is called ‘the church.’” Catechism 760

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I Must Know Thee

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Oct 052007
 

I must know thee, Unknown One,
Thou who searchest out the debths of my soul,
And blowest like a storm through my life.
thou art inconceivable and yet my kinsman!
I must know thee and even serve thee.
[…]
Thus do I lie,
Bend myself, convulsed
With all eternal torture,
And smitten
By thee, cruelest huntsman,
Thou unfamiliar – GOD
Nietzsche

Even in the Desert

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Oct 052007
 

“Even in the deserts of the secularized world, the human soul thirsts for God.” Pope Benedict    

To Have Faith Means to Dare

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Oct 052007
 

“To have faith means to dare, to think the unthinkable, yet to act within the limits of the realistically possible; it is the paradoxical hope to expect the Messiah every day, yet not to lose heart when he has not come at the appointed hour.” Erich Fromm    

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Talkativeness

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Oct 052007
 

“When people’s attention is no longer turned inwards, when they are no longer satisfied with their own inner religious lives, but turn to others and to things outside themselves, where the relation is intellectual, in search of that satisfaction, when nothing important ever happens to gather the threads of life together with the finality of a catastrophe: then instead we get talkativeness.”

Soren Kierkegaard

Two Kinds of People

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Oct 052007
 

“There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, “All right, then, have it your way.” C.S. Lewis    

The Fruit of Silence

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Oct 052007
 

“The fruit of SILENCE is Prayer The fruit of PRAYER is Faith The fruit of FAITH is Love The fruit of LOVE is Service The fruit of SERVICE is Peace” Mother Teresa’s Business Card    

Something Above Happiness

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Oct 052007
 

“To me, religion has brought at least the perception of something above morals, and therefore extremely terrifying; it has brought me not happiness, but the sense of something above happiness and therefore more terrifying than ordinary pain and misery; the very dark night and the desert. To me, the phrase “to be damned for the glory of God” is sense and not paradox; I had far rather walk, as I do, in daily terror of eternity, than feel that this was only a children’s game in which all the contestants would get equally worthless prizes in the end. … And I don’t know whether this is to be labeled “Classicism” or “Romanticism”; I only think that I have hold of the tip of the tail of something quite real, more real than morals, or than sweetness and light and culture.”

T.S. Eliot

Fear Not

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Oct 052007
 

“The young man had found Religion. He said to himself: fear not, trust in God, and your fears will not come true. The old man too had found Religion. He said to himself: fear not, trust in God, and though all your fears come true, know they are nothing to be afraid of.”

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This Attention

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Oct 072005
 

“Our search for the ultimate meaning of our lives is not a matter of a particular intelligence, or some special effort, or even exceptional means. Rather, finding the ultimate truth is like discovering something beautiful along one’s path. One sees and recognizes it, if one is attentive. The issue then, is this attention.” Father Luigi Giussani

My Life is a Listening

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Oct 062005
 

“My life is a listening; His is a speaking. My salvation is to hear and respond. For this, my life must be silent. Hence, my silence is my salvation.” – Thomas Merton

My God is Me

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Oct 052005
 

“My God is me. Whatever I regain is mine by right. This is the source of all my strength and pride.” – Adam

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Dreams of Happiness

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Oct 042005
 

“It is Jesus [who] you seek when you dream of happiness; he is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; he is the beauty to which you are so attracted” Pope John Paul II

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