27 Oct 2022
by jeannepoland
in Poetry

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2022
“Our life is the most precious “book” that is given to us, a book that unfortunately many do not read, or rather they do so too late, before dying. And yet, precisely in that book that one finds what one pointlessly seeks elsewhere. Saint Augustine, a great seeker of the truth, had understood this just by rereading his life, noting in it the silent and discreet, but incisive, steps of the presence of the Lord. At the end of this journey, he noted with wonder: “You were within, and I without, and there I did seek you; I, unlovely, rushed heedlessly among the things of beauty you made. You were with me, but I was not with you” (Confessions X, 27.38)… “Return within yourself. Read your life. Read yourself inwardly, the path you have taken. With serenity. Return within yourself”.”
Pope Francis
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