Photograph by Michael Kenna
“The discipline of the heart makes us stand in the presence of God with
all we have and are; our fears and anxieties, our guilt and shame, our sexual
fantasies, our greed and anger, our joys, successes, aspirations and hopes, our
reflections, dreams and mental wanderings, and most of all our people, family,
friends and enemies – in short all that makes us who we are… We tend to present
to God only those parts of ourselves with which we feel relatively comfortable
and which we think will invoke a positive response. Thus our prayer becomes
very selective, narrow and unbalanced. And not just our prayer, but also our
self-knowledge, because by behaving as strangers before God we become strangers
to ourselves.”
Ronald
Rolheiser
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