Begin within yourself – M P Gallagher
Tag: REFLECTIONS
SHORT TEXTES FOR REFLECTIONS
Ignorance of the scriptures is ignorance of Christ – Prologue of St Jerome on Isaiah
If, as the apostle Paul says, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, then he who is ignorant of the scriptures is also ignorant of the power of God and of his wisdom: ignorance of the scriptures is ignorance of Christ
Meditation for Christians – Laurence Freeman
The wonderful thing about meditation for Christians is that you don’t have to try to be good anymore.
If you see yourself holding grudges or being mean-spirited then I think maybe you do have to try to control yourself, but that’s one of the fruits of meditation.
You don’t have to try to be good.
You simply grow in the consciousness that you are good because God is good and everything around you is good.
Anything that is not good is the result of unconsciousness, and those results can be terrible, but they are the results of unconsciousness.
Eternity is with us – Evelyn Underhill
Eternity is with us, inviting our contemplation perpetually, but we are too frightened, lazy, and suspicious to respond; too arrogant to still our thought, and let divine sensation have its way.
It needs industry and goodwill if we would make that transition; for the process involves a veritable spring-cleaning of the soul, a turning-out and rearrangement of our mental furniture, a wide opening of closed windows, that the notes of the wild birds beyond our garden may come to us fully charged with wonder and freshness, and drown with their music the noise of the gramophone within.
Those who do this, discover that they have lived in a stuffy world, whilst their inheritance was a world of morning-glory: where every tit-mouse is a celestial messenger, and every thrusting bud is charged with the full significance of life.
People have vast potential – P Adams
