For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us...
Personally, I don't think I've ever heard the devil's voice before; but if I have, it bears a really strong resemblance to my own. It is the taunting voice always hovering in the periphery in my head, waiting for me to make a mistake so it can pounce on the failure...
We need a mystical spirituality of “somebodiness.” Not to be confused with celebrity status or self-righteousness, there is a need for a deep sense of knowing who we are as human beings.
True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.
Our calling is not what we do as much as it is who we are while we do it.
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.
The poor tell us who we are. The prophets tell us who we can be. So we hide the poor and kill the prophets.
Christian life, then, is a matter of becoming who we already are. from Radical Grace