From Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today by Joan Chittister, OSB:What makes the spiritual life different from any other life? What are we doing that is so different from what everybody else is doing? The answer is it is not what we are doing at all that makes the spiritual life different from the life lived without consciousness. The answer is it is what we are and how we do what we do that is the mark of the spiritual life. It is what we are while we are doing whatever it is we do . . . .
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