“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”
Question for Meditation: What is the story about?
Month: April 2020
“Having ‘enough’ is not an amount. It’s a state of being.”
Question for Meditation: Do you have enough?
“Unmitigated seriousness displays a lack of virtue.”
Question for Meditation: What do you need to take less seriously?
“If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.”
Question for Meditation: What do you still want to understand?
“And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for: ‘God opposes the proud but bestows favor on the humble.’”
Question for Meditation: What would it look like to clothe yourself in humility?
“If you want, I will tell you what the highest knowledge is, which raises people in rank: it is humility.”
Question for Meditation: How does humility elevate you?
“The misuse of creation begins when we no longer recognize any higher instance than ourselves, when we see nothing else but ourselves.”
Question for Meditation: Take some time today to think about what is bigger than you.
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
Question for Meditation: Let humility change your perspective today.
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
Question for Meditation: What beauty can you observe today? How can beauty make you humble?
“The Wise Thief didst Thou make worthy of Paradise, in a single moment, O Lord. By the wood of Thy Cross illumine me as well, and save me.”
Question for Meditation: What is your prayer today?
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