"New Seeds of Contemplation" Quotes
A contemplative exploration of spirituality and the search for inner peace.
spirituality | 297 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image.
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.
The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
