“If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.”
Question for Meditation: What more can you seek to learn?
Month: April 2019
“Thus, let us all humble ourselves; let us all fall down in the dust before the boundless humility and exhaustion of the Sovereign of all, of God, Who has come to heal our infirmities, to save us from pride, vanity, corruption, and every sinful impurity.”
Question for Meditation: What do you need to be saved from?
“The faith of the thief, born of his esteem for Christ’s moral greatness, proved stronger than the faith of the Apostles, who although captivated by the loftiness of Christ’s teaching, based their faith to a still greater extent on the signs and wonders He wrought.”
Question for Meditation: Why do you believe?
“The twelfth step of humility is that a monk always manifests humility in his bearing no less than in his heart, so that it is evident at the Work of God, in the oratory, the monastery or the garden, on a journey or in the field, or anywhere else.”
Question for Meditation: How can you make both your look and your heart humble?
“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
Question for Meditation: What could a group accomplish without ego?
“Easter is an earthquake, an explosion. If you see it as less than that, you’re not getting it.”
Question for Meditation: If Easter is an earthquake, what difference does that make to you?
“The Torah, say the rabbis, is compared to water for just as water only runs downhill, never uphill, the word of God can only be heard in a humble heart.”
Question for Meditation: How do you need to prepare your heart?
“Be humble, for you are made of Earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.”
Question for Meditation: What balance do you need to seek today?
“Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.”
Question for Meditation: How do you need to humble yourself?
“He who lowers his mind to the dust of all men’s feet, Sees the Name of God enshrined in every heart.”
Question for Meditation: What new perspective do you need to take this week?
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