Wise Eyes
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1. The Longing
"Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise."
C.S. Lewis
2. Awe
"Awe enables us to perceive in the world invitations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginnings of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and simple,to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal." Abraham Heschel
3. Beloved Child
"Our adult pretends to want pleasure, power, wealth, health, or success. But our child knows what we want nothing less than infinite joy." Peter Kreeft
4. Love
"I know of one means only by which to attain to perfection: LOVE." Theresa of Lisieu
5. Light and Dark
"If we compare all that we can grasp and understand, all that is clear and straightforward in our lives with the obscure and the baffling...then we seem to see a tiny light burning in the midst of endless darkness." Karl Rahner
6. Questions
"Lift up your eyes on high. There is a higher form of seeing. We must learn how to lift up our eyes on high in order to see that the world is more of a question than an answer." Abraham Heschel
7. Grace
"Grace is God's presence — permeating us, surrounding us, drawing us in all things by His love into greater oneness with Him." George Maloney
8. Depth Reality
"Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice, to which we may continuously return." Thomas Kelly
9. Eternal Now
"A person who in the inmost depths of her heart is really devoted to God's will...her humdrum days weave the fabric of a divine life." Karl Rahner
10. The Presence
"We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito... The real labor is to come awake. Still more, to remain awake." C. S. Lewis