Blessing

Blessing
The Lord bless you and keep you;  the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.

Discovery

Does discovering who you are awaken a kind of inner unrest?....If you started accusing yourself of all that is in you, would your nights and days be long enough?  Brother Roger of Taize, Essential Writings

The Human Condition

It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace.  Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very rhythm of things and we are forever restless, dissatisfied, frustrated, and aching.  We are so overcharged with desire that it is hard to come to simple rest.  Desire is always stronger than satisfaction.  R. Rolheiser,  The Holy Longing

Discipline

The purpose of the Disciplines is liberation from the stifling slavery to self-intreat and fear

Change

"Everybody thinks of changing humanity and no body thinks of changing himself."

Leo Tolstoy

Worship

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the Holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

Wm Temple

Humility

Condescend to all the weaknesses and infirmities of your fellow creatures, cover their frailties , love their excellencies, encourage their virtues, relieve their wants, rejoice in their prosperity's, compassionate their distress, receive their friendship, overlook their unkindness, forgive their malice, be a servant of servants, and condescend to do the lowest offices to the lowest of mankind.

William Law