“Today, looking back, my pain and bottom brought me to willingness; to open to Grace, and a Love and Power greater than me.”

“An awakening offers an absolutely different and new addition to the sick soul. It astonishes us by its suddenness. Like a person awakening from the anesthetic influence, who receives a new sphere of power. When we have lost the outward battle and are disowned by the world, spirituality redeems and gives new life to an interior world that otherwise would be an empty waste - a forgotten memory. Even if we were hypocrites, adulterers, drunks or lunatics, the origin does not matter. There is a new Gift of Freedom for us. The struggle is over. We find this nowhere except in the intensely personal realm of the Spirit.”

“Spirituality allows us to get beyond the narrow confines of self. Yet, another paradox lurks here, as countless sages have suggested: to get beyond our selves, without trying to escape ourselves. To get beyond the self to a place of interior peace, we must let go of thoughts of material possessions, and beyond the immediate concerns that dissipate us, we must first learn to accept our selfish, impatient, often recalcitrant human nature.”

“Interiorly, whether our prayer is private or public, it is the same Spirit praying in us: Spirit is really touching different strings of the same instrument.”

“The power of God's spirit is the greatest power in the universe. Our conquest of each other, the great kings and conquerors, the conquest of wealth, the leaders of the money society, all amount to very little in the end. But he who conquers himself is greater than he who conquers a city. Material things have no permanence. But God's spirit is eternal. Everything really worthwhile in the world is the result of the power of God's spirit. Prayer for the Day I pray that I may open myself to the power of God's spirit. I pray that my relationships with others may be improved by This Spirit.”