When it comes to our development, when it comes to real change, the long, slow, boring and often painful route is quite reliably, the most direct.
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Thursday 29 November 2012
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Meade, was an American cultural anthropologist.
Monday 26 November 2012
Rule of Life is an intentional pattern of spiritual disciplines that provides structure and direction for growth
Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture.
Practicing a Rule of Life with others moves us against the grain of our individualistic culture. However, I believe that a Rule should grow from the positive aspects of our life, not what we perceive to be our failings. We should discern it in conversation with God and others in our community, and we must make God the focus of our Rule (don't focus on negative images of ourselves) and then we move in the directions in which we feel God's calling. A Rule of Life should be a response to being loved by God in the first place, and feeling moved to become what God calls us to be in this world.
Ever since St. Benedict's time, Christians have used a Rule of Life to provide an ancient yet powerfully consistent way to live into our present and future faith.
To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain human.
To live in communion, in genuine dialogue with others is absolutely necessary if man is to remain human.
Sunday 25 November 2012
Come, dervishes: here is the water of life. Dance in it.
Come, dervishes: here is the water of life. Dance in it.