Imagine that the world is a circle, that God is the center, and that the radii are the different ways human beings live. When those who wish to come closer to God walk towards the center of the circle, they come closer to one another at the same time as to God. The closer they come to God, the closer they come to one another. And the closer they come to one another at the same time, the closer they come to God.
St. Dorotheus of Gaza, Monastic, c. 500 – 560
It takes a lifetime to really understand that God is in what is standing in front of us. Most of our lives are spent looking, straining to see God in the cloud, behind the mist, beyond the dark. It is when we face God in one another, in creation, in the moment, that the real spiritual journey begins.
Joan Chittister, Called to Question
