Today’s One-Liner (#346)
Keep your heart at peace and a multitude around you will be saved. –St. Seraphim, quoted in Isaac Slater, OCSO, “Do Not Judge Anyone”: Desert Wisdom for a Polarized World, 76
Keep your heart at peace and a multitude around you will be saved. –St. Seraphim, quoted in Isaac Slater, OCSO, “Do Not Judge Anyone”: Desert Wisdom for a Polarized World, 76
To underline: the moral crusader filled with righteous indignation proceeds obsessively, not calmly or with clarity; and his efforts are sterile, ineffective, undermined by his own lack of self-awareness. Only contemplative attention that reflects things…
We must dare to be love in a world that does not know how to love. –Charles de Foucauld, cited in Isaac Slater, OCSO, “Do Not Judge Anyone”: Desert Wisdom for a Polarized World