Brother David Steindl-Rast

Where love is genuine, belonging is always mutual. It is like submerging ourselves into an ocean of sublime grace.

Gratefulness can be practiced, cultivated, learned. And as we grow in gratefulness, we grow in mindfulness.

We begin to face what we might prefer to overlook, begin to see what is going on in this world of ours.

Since every thing, every person, every situation comes from the God who speaks, the whole world is Word by which we can live.

There surely is a world of difference between the prayer of action and that of silence or word.

Happiness and a meaningful life are inseparable.

We humans belong to both realms, the realm of the senses and a realm that goes beyond them. This stretches us. To avoid the tension of this stretching process we are apt to settle for half of our rightful inheritance. Still, our human birth gives us a dual citizenship. Only by claiming both realms as home can we avoid the polarization of our human consciousness. Our noblest task is to make the most of this creative tension. If we neglect what goes beyond our senses, we sink below animals.