Stillness Within One Individual Can

I Suddenly Saw That All The Time It Was Not I Who Had Been Seeking God, But God Who Had Been Seeking Me. I Had Made Myself The Centre Of My Own Existence And Had My Back Turned To God.

I Liked The Solitude And The Silence Of The Woods And The Hills. I Felt There The Sense Of A Presence, Something Undefined And Mysterious, Which Was Reflected In The Faces Of The Flowers And The Movements Of Birds And Animals, In The Sunlight Falling Through The Leaves And In The Sound Of Running Water, In The Wind Blowing On The Hills And The Wide Expanse Of Earth And Sky.

God Had Brought Me To My Knees And Made Me Acknowledge My Own Nothingness, And Out Of That Knowledge I Had Been Reborn. I Was No Longer The Centre Of My Life And Therefore I Could See God In Everything.

Obedience Is Detachment From The Self. This Is The Most Radical Detachment Of All. But What Is The Self? The Self Is The Principle Of Reason And Responsibility In Us. It Is The Root Of Freedom, It Is What Makes Us Men.

God Has Graced Every Tradition With Insight Into The Divine Mystery, From The Most Primitive To The Most Sophisticated-each Has A Gift To Bring To The World.