21 October 2009

always open

Living in the presence of God does not mean constantly thinking about God. That would split us internally and be too much for us. Rather, it is a matter of opening oneself to a reality, surrendering oneself to the God who surrounds one.

Thus practicing the presence of God does not consist of training in concentration, but on the contrary of relaxing, letting oneself rest in the reality of God, in whom we move and are. Therefore this practice must be carried out not so much in the head as in the body.

Our hearts are to rest in the God who is present; our behavior, our posture, our way of speaking, standing, and walking, our internal collectedness in everything we do should witness to the experience of the God who is present.

Benedict of Nursia - His Message for Today
Anselm Grun, OSB

15 October 2009

bored + welsh = wow

7 stories

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher

11 October 2009

dos mas

"Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive."
Josephine Hart, Damage


"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham…"
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

08 October 2009

06 October 2009

two more

"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham…"
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

"For there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope."
George Eliot, Adam Bede

03 October 2009

two

"In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences."
Robert Green Ingersoll

"Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left."
Hubert Humphrey