Spiritual Direction
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Spiritual Direction
My belief is that tears, although they look like a mere emotive reaction, are much more: a deeply free action that many do not enjoy. They proceed from deep inside, where we are most truly ourselves. Tears reveal the depths at which and from which we care.
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr
The present is very precious: “Now is the acceptable time, now is the day of salvation” (2 Cor 6:2).
Thomas à Kempis • The Imitation of Christ: (Original translation as heard on the Hallow App)
I’ve finally realized why I’ve never been a fan of focusing just on productivity without focusing on other things as well.
Productivity is a natural outcome that happens when you have a deep purpose. When you have a deep purpose, you naturally come up with clear priorities to work on.
When you have a deep purpose and clear priorities, you become pr
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umilta.netRead Psalm 33 (“Our soul waits for the Lord. . . . Our heart is glad in him”). Consider: What am I waiting for? How is my heart filled with gladness as I reflect on creation?
Kevin O'Brien • The Ignatian Adventure: Experiencing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in Daily Life
The Risen Christ is, as Teilhard de Chardin tried to describe it, the divine lure, a blinking, brilliant light set as the Omega point of time and history that keeps reminding us that love, not death, is the eternal thing.
Richard Rohr - Immortal Diamond
Even, and perhaps especially, in the bleakest times, we can still discover and awaken beauty; these are precisely the times when we need it most.
John O'Donohue • Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace
Spiritual desire is the drive that God put in us from the beginning, for total satisfaction, for home, for heaven, for divine union, and it just got displaced onto the wrong object.
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
