Spiritual Direction
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Spiritual Direction
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
In your heart may there be a sanctuary
For the stillness where clarity is born.
May your work be infused with passion and creativity
And have the wisdom to balance compassion and challenge.
For the stillness where clarity is born.
May your work be infused with passion and creativity
And have the wisdom to balance compassion and challenge.
Jennifer Lentfer • Friday’s Poetic Pause: “For One Who Holds Power” by John O’Donohue – How Matters
And silence is one of the great victims of modern culture. We live in an intense and visually aggressive age; everything is drawn outwards towards the sensation of the image. Because culture is becoming ever more homogenized and universalist, image has such power. With the continued netting of everything, chosen images can immediately attain univer
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Silence actually teaches us to listen.
Christopher L. Heuertz • The Sacred Enneagram: Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth
“Hope is tough. It’s tougher to be uncertain than certain. It’s tougher to take chances than to be safe. And so hope is often seen as weakness, because it’s vulnerable, but it takes strength to enter into that vulnerability of being open to the possibilities.”
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
C. S. Lewis • Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis Signature Classics)
To hope is to “borrow grace.” It is not naive optimism. Hope admits the truth of our vulnerability. It does not trust God to keep all bad things from happening. But it assumes that redemption, beauty, and goodness will be there for us, whatever lies ahead.