Eileen

“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.”
― Roberto Calasso, Literature and the Gods

“Monastic contemplatives have staked out a clearly limited area to be transformed by contemplation: the monastery. Lay contemplatives face the challenge of transforming the whole world.”
― David Steindl-Rast

“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver