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“Radically ordinary hospitality characterizes those who don’t fuss over different worldviews represented at the dinner table.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World

“John O’Donohue, “Where there is a depth of awareness, there is a reverence for presence. Where consciousness is dulled, distant, or blind, presence grows faint and vanishes.”
― David G. Benner, Presence and Encounter: The Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life

“The absence of stable knowing of presence also manifests in the fear of solitude.”
― David G. Benner, Presence and Encounter: The Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life

“It is releasing distractions, preoccupations, and prejudgments and being available for absorption.”
― David G. Benner, Presence and Encounter: The Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life