Death & Resurrection - a daily experience.

"Neither death nor resurrection are experiences that happen only at the end of our lives. They are the pattern of each day's pilgrimage. Each time we let go of the past to embrace the future we relive Christ's paschal journey in our own flesh. Each time we allow our fears or our selfishness to die, we break through to new life."

John Heagle in "On the Way".

Listening

By being attentive, by learning to listen (or recovering the natural capacity to listen which cannot be learned any more than breathing), we can find ourself engulfed in such happiness that it cannot be explained; the happiness of being at one with everything in that hidden ground of Love for which there can be no explanations.

Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton: Essential Writings

On Being Alert

The Holy Spirit moves us like the wind. When a sailor is helming a small boat, working with tiller and mainsail to take advantage of an unseen breeze, he has to be alert every moment to the slightest gust. That is the habitual state of those born of the spirit: it is a poise, a readiness to respond, that is the opposite of inertia.