Patience

Patience is not waiting passively until someone else does something. Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient, we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Be patient and trust that the treasure you are looking for is hidden in the ground on which you stand.
Henri J.M. Nouwen

Religious Dialogue

No peace among the nations without peace among the religions.
No peace among the religions without dialogue between the religions.
No dialogue between the religions without investigation of the foundation of the religions.
Hans Kung

Religion

Religion is “a particular social realization of a relationship to an absolute ground of meaning, to an absolutely final concern, to something with which I am unconditionally involved.”
Hans Kung

Spiritual Birth

“Here [in the spiritual realm] birth is not the result of intervention from outside, as happens with bodily creatures who reproduce in an external way. Spiritual birth is the result of free choice and we are thus, in a sense, our own parents, creating ourselves as we want to be, freely fashioning ourselves according to the pattern of our choice.”
Gregory of Nyssa

Desire

“The language of souls is their desire.”
Gregory of Nyssa

Suffering

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.”
Gordon Allport

Gandhi on Jesus

“I tell the Hindus that their lives will be imperfect if they do not also study reverently the teaching of Jesus.”

Gandhi