ILLUMINATED LIFE

"The contemplative life is about becoming more contemplative all the time. It is about being in the world differently. What needs to be changed in us? Anything that deludes us into thinking that we are not simply a work in progress, all of whose degrees, status, achievements, and power are no substitute for the wisdom that a world full of God everywhere, in everyone, has to teach us."
- Joan Chittister, from Illuminated Life

VISION OF A CULTURE

"The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers  as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes."
- Joan Chittister

IS it any wonder we are in the state we are in?

GOD IN US

"Once upon a time, the story goes, a preacher ran through the streets of the city shouting, 'We must put God into our lives. We must put God into our lives.' And hearing him, the old monastic rose up in the city plaza to say, 'No, sir, you are wrong. You see, God is already in our lives. Our task is simply to recognize that.'"
- Joan Chittister, OSB, Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today