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Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers. -
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I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracts me most about the Anglican spiritual... -
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If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. -
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There is as much guidance in what does not and cannot happen in my life as there is in what can and does -- maybe more. -
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My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives. -
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It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is. -
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Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. -
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You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. -
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -
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Do you hesitate, man, to go this way, when this is the way that God came to you? -
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A fanatic has been described as a person who, when unsure of his direction, doubles his speed. -
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You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort... -
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Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an ... -
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I will go anywhere, provided it is forward. -
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The examen makes us aware of moments that at first we might easily pass by as insignificant, moments that ultimately can give direction for our lives. -
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Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path. -
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Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next. -
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I am sure that the bit of the road that most requires to be illuminated is the point where it forks. -
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Until I understand where I am, I can’t get to where I am going. This is the value of a compass when we are out walking or hiking and need to know we’re going in the right direction. But we also have a... -
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Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord; that chastisements are a token of His love; that the season, measure, an... -
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None climbs so high as he who knows not whither he is going. -
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The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it's easy to steer i... -
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Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. -
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To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease. -
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Spiritual Direction is a relationship initiated by a spiritual seeker who finds a mature person of faith willing to pray and respond with wisdom and understanding to his or her questions about how to ... -
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Spiritual guidance affirms the basic quest for meaning. It calls for the creation of space in which the validity of the questions does not depend on the availability of answers but on the questions... -
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. -
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Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life. -
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The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to... -
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Spiritual direction, therefore, explicitly acknowledges what is often only implicit in other forms of pastoral care: that the directees' desire for more life, more integration, more union with God...
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