January 22, 2010

it is in giving that we receive
photo by Lee Keefer

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I may not
so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
- St. Francis of Assisi

“The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery,
and the only thing you need to recover from
is a fractured sense of self.”
- Marianne Williamson