favorites: the cloister walk, day five

a busy day of teaching, of receiving grace, of being grateful for understanding words, and of eating a bizarre dinner that one could only come up with when your oven is broken, you're tired and you just want to eat something that sounds good.

ahem, rice, tuna and kidney beans. mixed together.

don't ask me. re-typing it makes it sound gross.

day five quotes:

"It would be impossible to love God without loving others, impossible to love others unless one were grounded in a healthy self-respect, and maybe, impossible to truly love at all in a totally secular way, without participating in the holy." -pg 252

"What would I find in my own heart if the noise of the world were silenced? Who would I be? Who will I be, when loss or crisis or the depredations of time take away the trappings of success, of self-importance, even personality itself?" -pg 295

"His welcome refreshed me and made me see something that's easy to lose sight of in our infernally busy lives. That we exist for each other and when we're at a low ebb, sometimes just to see the goodness radiating from another can be all we need in order to rediscover it in ourselves." -pg 367

And that is five days worth of quotes from The Cloister Walk.

Seriously, it's worth the read.

If I've bored you completely, I promise I'll be back to random mongolia news and reflections promptly.

happy friday!