Laurence Freeman, OSB

Raising a family may be exhausting and seem to leave little time for specific “spiritual practice,” but it is all about other-centeredness.

Perhaps we never truly feel we belong to this world, even if we cling to it, make it serve us, and try to get it to accept us.

Clarity grows with the spirit of acceptance and the purifying of the mind.

The human mind can be very reactive. We don’t get what we want and we rage, complain, or attack whatever we can blame for the disappointment.

You have only to be truthful to cause trouble. But it’s a different kind of trouble when you are untruthful.

Stability brings the point of departure and the place of arrival together in a dynamic stillness and a radical openness to change.

We slice up experience into beginnings, middles and ends and draw lessons from the slices.