"It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer."
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"Mysticism is for all, not just for a few special people."
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"People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone."
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"We want to prove we are good writers or good business, good parents or good teachers. The world is very competitive and catches us in this frenzy. It wants us to go here, be there, and be part of this or that."
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"[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other."
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"Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus can a real authentic struggle take place. The encounter with Christ does not take place before, after, or beyond the struggle with our false self and its demons. No, it is precisely in the midst of this struggle that our Lord comes to us and says, as he said to the old man in the story: ‘As soon as you turned to me again, you see I was beside you.’"
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"The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation."
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"You don't have to run around world proving you're lovable."
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"One of the most satisfying aspects of writing is that it can open in us deep wells of hidden treasures that are beautiful for us as well as for others to see."
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"I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear.""
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"When I was teaching, I didn't feel I had a home, a place where I truly belonged."
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"Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)"
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"Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land."
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"By prayer, community is created as well as expressed."
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"I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too."
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"Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it."
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"...the word that seems best to summarize the desire of the human heart is 'communion.' ...wherever we look it is communion that we seek."
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"While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds."
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"It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines."
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"I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries."
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