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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a ...more

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I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposel...more

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The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer...more

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There is not a flower that opens not a seed that falls into the ground and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that do...more

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We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

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True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use o...more

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We must approach our meditation realizing that 'grace,' 'mercy,' and 'faith' are not permanent inalienable possessions which we gain by our efforts an...more

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There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, the passage from death to life in Christ. Sometimes ...more

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Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the...more

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Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently 'scientific' knowledge of God, but to ...more

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The point where you become free not to kill, not to exploit, not to destroy, not to compete, because you are no longer afraid of death or the devil or...more

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The ever-changing reality in the midst of which we live should awaken us to the possibility of an uninterrupted dialogue with God. By this I do not me...more

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Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the differ...more

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The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, wri...more

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The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in so...more