iPhone Diary Series: Lent

                             
                                                        iPhone Diary: 21 December 2009

Do you know what the answer for loneliness is? Solitude! No one would have ever imagined it, but I promise you it is true.

In solitude, we are able to let Reality/God define us from the inside out. We stop looking outside of ourselves for diversions, entertainment, or real satisfaction. It is the birth of the soul. When we keep looking outside of ourselves, we always and forever need another then another diversion.

In solitude we slowly learn to live face to face with a Presence that asks nothing of us but presence in return. It is too good to be true. This is the birth of the soul.

--Fr. Richard Rohr

February 2010

iPhone Diary Series: Lent

iPhone Diary: 15 February 2010

The most simple spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest because none of us wants to be with someone we don't love. To be with our own thoughts and feelings, to stop the addictive prayer wheels and just feel what we're feeling, think what we're really thinking, is probably the most courageous act most of us will ever do.

--Fr. Richard Rohr

Radical Grace, p. 106