To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour. William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Quoted from a Good Friday Homily from The Vatican
"Our civilization, dominated by technology, has need of a heart-
if man is to be able to survive without dehumanizing everything.
We must give more space to the reasons of the heart..., if we wish to avoid,
while physically overheating our planet..,
falling back into a spiritual ice age.
The technical has been well heard.
We have many things which fascilitate the development,
and measurement of the capicities for intellegence.
But no similar effective scientific developments,
or measurements for the capacity to love.
This seems to count for nothing.
Whilst we know that happiness or unhappiness
does not depend on
understanding, or not understanding.
As much as
to love or not to love.
To be loved or not to be loved.
The motive of all this is simple.
We are made in the image of God,
& God is love.
It's not difficult to understand why we are so anxious to grow in our understanding,
and so little concerned to grow in our capicity to love.
Understanding translates itself automatically
into
enabling.
Love..
into
service.
One of the modern idolitries
is the idolitry of the IQ.
Of the
'Intellegence Quotient."
There are numerous methods put in place for measuring this.
But
who is concerned with measuring the quotient of the heart?
Yet,
it is only Love that redeems & saves.
While science & understanding ALONE
are able to carry us to damnation.
All the books in the world
do not deserve
a caress.
First, above all.., St Paul wrote:
"Knowledge Inflates. Love Builds Up. "
Finally
an opening for humanity..
The Era..
of the Heart. "
-P.Raniero Cantalamessa OFM
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
-Goethe
Some words of Mom Theresa below...
-To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
-There are no great things, only small things with great love.
-it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
-Good works are links that form a chain of love. "
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