A Few Good Quotes

     I am amazed at times at the gems I come across.
    I found this in Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees: “Really, her spirit is everywhere, Lily, just everywhere. Inside rocks and trees and even people, but sometimes it will get concentrated in certain places and just beam out at you in a special way” … “You can hear silent things on the other side of the everyday world that nobody else can.”
     And then, Annice Callahan, in Traditions of Spiritual Guidance, says “Rahner asserts that to speak of the human is to speak of the divine and vice versa. He describes God as the mystery in human experience. For him, then, God is the depth dimension in experiences such as solitude, friendship, community, death, hope and, as such, is the orientation toward the future. Rahner goes so far as to say that loneliness, disappointments and the ingratitude of others can be graced moments because they open us to the transcendent. The silence of God, the toughness of life and the darkness of death can be graced events. This mystery of grace discloses itself as a forgiving nearness, a hidden closeness, our real home, a love which shares itself, something familiar which we can turn to from the alienation of our own empty and perilous gives. When we are in touch with ourselves authentically, we experience God.”
     (Rabbi) Abraham Isaac Kook says, in Lights of Holiness, “Observe the harmony of the heavenly realm, how it pervades every aspect of life, the spiritual and the material, which are beforeyour eyes of flesh and your eyes of the spirit. Contemplate the wonders of creation, the divine dimension of their being, not as a dim configuration that is presented to you from the distance but as the reality in which you live. Know yourself, and your world, know the meditations of your heart, and of every thinker, find the source of  your own life, and of the life beyond you, around, you, the glorious spendor of the life in which you have your being.”
     Thomas R. Kelly, in Quaker Spirituality, says, “Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself.”

Make of them what you will.