“The commitment this journey calls from us . . .requires faith, perhaps a certain recklessness to begin. But once we have begun, it is the nature of God, the nature of love to sweep us along, teaching us by experience that our commitment is to reality, that our discipline is the springboard to freedom. The fear that the journey is “away from” rather than “towards” is only disproved by experience. This is a journey where ultimately only experience counts. The words or writings of others can add only a little light to the wholly actual, wholly present and wholly personal reality that lives in your heart and in my heart. Miraculously we can enter this experience together and discover communion just where communication seemed to break down…..And the journey to our own heart is a journey into every heart.” From John Main OSB, “Preparing for Birth,” THE PRESENT CHRIST.
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