After all, how could I be a person if Ultimate Reality were impersonal? - David Steindl-Rast

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.

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.

People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.