Nothing is so difficult, as not deceiving oneself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The only healthy type of self-examination, according to Smith, “for one look at self, take ten looks at Christ”.

Hannah Whitaker Smith, quoted in Bruce Wilkinsons, 30 Days to Experiencing Spiritual Breakthrough (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 1999), 62, 64-65.

p. 84, Dying to Live, Having a Mary Spirit, Joanna Weaver.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

Stephen R. Covey

Benedictus, volume 4, issue 4

Holy Mass 21 April 2024

May the Lord enkindle in us the fire of his love and the flame of his everlasting charity. Amen.

It is the mother of all virtues.
Humility without reverence is a soul without a body, just as reverence without humility is a body without a soul.

p. 212, Fr Joseph Duenser, Unto the Altar, April 2024, vol 4, issue 4

… is insufficient. To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrafice, and unselfish, constructive action.
p. 93, AA, working with others

The verdict of the ages is that faith means courage.
p. 62, AA How it works

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

But whatever the future brings, it will not be what you expect, or what you think, and when it comes, it will be now too.
It too will be a moment that can be very easily missed, just as easily missed as this one.
And it too will be subject to continual change and the vagaries of all the causes and conditions that gave rise to it in previous moments.
For now is already the future and it is already here.
Arriving someplace more desireable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

pp. 238-241, Coming to our Senses, Jon Kabat-Zinn

… study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands,…