Thursday, March 26, 2009

Pray with your windows open

The Talmud reads, "Never pray in a room without windows." Never pray without the world in mind, in other words. The purpose of the spiritual life is not to save us from reality. It is to enable us to go on co-creating it.
- Joan Chittister

2 comments:

stephen said...

Ah...lovely quote from a spiritually lovely woman. All of Chittister's books spill over with a certain delightful wisdom. I've been a fan for many years now. (particularly as a Benedictine oblate)Thanks for the quote!

Impossibleape said...

hi Stephen
i am not familiar with her writings but I will have to put her on my list of must reads


i just found this on the sojourner's site and it struck a cord with me