If you truly seek this treasure, this kingdom where God alone reigns, you will find it. Your heart, if it is totally surrendered to God, is itself this treasure, that very kingdom you long for and are seeking.
Jean Pierre de Caussade: The Sacrament of the Present Moment - with thanks to Inward/Outward
Solitude, silence, and prayer are often the best ways to self-knowledge. Not because they offer solutions for the complexity of our lives but because they bring us in touch with our sacred center, where God dwells. That sacred center may not be analysed. It is the place of adoration, thanksgiving, and praise.
Henri Nouwen - with thanks to the Henri Nouwen Society
It is this surrender of the self to God, this intentional dwelling in the Kingdom that, as Jesus has told us, is within us (Luke 17.21) that makes possible, it seems to me, that intercessory identification of the self with "all that is made" (Julian of Norwich, Shorter Text, Ch. 6) that Brother Ramon SSF referred to when he wrote, "The cosmic nature of the Prayer means that the believer lives as a human being in solidarity with all other human beings, and with the animal creation, together with the whole created order (the cosmos). All this is drawn into and affected by the Prayer. One believer's prayers send out vibrations and reverberations that increase the power of the divine Love in the cosmos."
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Yes. And yes and yes and yes and yes :)
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