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Kathleen Norris Quote: “The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.”

51. “The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “I could suddenly grasp that not ever having to think about what to wear was freedom, that a drastic stripping down to essentials in one’s dress might also be a drastic enrichment of one’s ability to focus on more important things.”

52. “I could suddenly grasp that not ever having to think about what to wear was freedom, that a drastic stripping down to essentials in one’s dress might also be a drastic enrichment of one’s ability to focus on more important things.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “My book might be seen as a search for lower consciousness, an attempt to remove the patina of abstraction or glassy-eyed piety from religious words, by telling stories about them, by grounding them in the world we live in as mortal and often comically fallible human beings.”

53. “My book might be seen as a search for lower consciousness, an attempt to remove the patina of abstraction or glassy-eyed piety from religious words, by telling stories about them, by grounding them in the world we live in as mortal and often comically fallible human beings.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “The fact that one people’s frontier is usually another’s homeland has been mostly overlooked.”

54. “The fact that one people’s frontier is usually another’s homeland has been mostly overlooked.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “As I listened to the Book of Revelation over several weeks I found in it a healing vision, a journey through the heart of pain and despair, and into hope. And I was consistently reminded of how subtly this vision works on us. It asserts that the evils of this world are not incurable, that injustice does not have the last word. And that can be terrifying or consoling, depending on your point of view, your place within the world.”

55. “As I listened to the Book of Revelation over several weeks I found in it a healing vision, a journey through the heart of pain and despair, and into hope. And I was consistently reminded of how subtly this vision works on us. It asserts that the evils of this world are not incurable, that injustice does not have the last word. And that can be terrifying or consoling, depending on your point of view, your place within the world.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?”

56. “When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “It may be fashionable to assert that all is holy, but not many are willing to haul ass to church four or five times a day to sing about it. It’s not for the faint of heart.”

57. “It may be fashionable to assert that all is holy, but not many are willing to haul ass to church four or five times a day to sing about it. It’s not for the faint of heart.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers, buying more bits and pieces – two or more cars, two homes and all that fills them – and outfitting one’s body for a wide variety of identities: business person, homebody, amateur athlete, traveler, theater or sports fan.”

58. “I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers, buying more bits and pieces – two or more cars, two homes and all that fills them – and outfitting one’s body for a wide variety of identities: business person, homebody, amateur athlete, traveler, theater or sports fan.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “The tragedy of sin is that it diverts gifts. The person who has a genuine capacity for loving becomes promiscuous, maybe sexually, or maybe by becoming frivolous and fickle, afraid to make a commitment to anyone or anything. The person with a gift for passionate intensity squanders it in angry tirades and, given power, becomes a demagogue.”

59. “The tragedy of sin is that it diverts gifts. The person who has a genuine capacity for loving becomes promiscuous, maybe sexually, or maybe by becoming frivolous and fickle, afraid to make a commitment to anyone or anything. The person with a gift for passionate intensity squanders it in angry tirades and, given power, becomes a demagogue.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “Once, when I was describing to a friend from Syracuse, New York, a place on the plains that I love, a ridge above a glacial moraine with a view of almost fifty miles, she asked, “But what is there to see?” The answer, of course, is nothing. Land, sky, and the ever-changing light.”

60. “Once, when I was describing to a friend from Syracuse, New York, a place on the plains that I love, a ridge above a glacial moraine with a view of almost fifty miles, she asked, “But what is there to see?” The answer, of course, is nothing. Land, sky, and the ever-changing light.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “Monastic people have long known – and I’ve experienced it in a small way myself – that the communal reciting, chanting, and singing of the psalms brings a unique sense of wholeness and order to their day, and even establishes the rhythm of their lives.”

61. “Monastic people have long known – and I’ve experienced it in a small way myself – that the communal reciting, chanting, and singing of the psalms brings a unique sense of wholeness and order to their day, and even establishes the rhythm of their lives.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “One of the advantages of laws is that you can follow them blind, when you have lost all your moorings. You can’t follow your instincts, but you can remember your rule.”

62. “One of the advantages of laws is that you can follow them blind, when you have lost all your moorings. You can’t follow your instincts, but you can remember your rule.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.”

63. “If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “Both liturgy and what is euphemistically termed ‘domestic work’ also have an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith in the present that fosters hope and makes life seem possible in the day-to-day.”

64. “Both liturgy and what is euphemistically termed ‘domestic work’ also have an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith in the present that fosters hope and makes life seem possible in the day-to-day.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “If monks are crazy to live the way they do, maybe the world needs more such craziness, what Matthew Kelty has termed ‘the madness of great love.’ My narrow world had just opened wide, and I had glimpsed such a love.”

65. “If monks are crazy to live the way they do, maybe the world needs more such craziness, what Matthew Kelty has termed ‘the madness of great love.’ My narrow world had just opened wide, and I had glimpsed such a love.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “Well, they tell us meat isn’t good for us anyway!”

66. “Well, they tell us meat isn’t good for us anyway!”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “Ironically, it seems that it is by the means of seemingly perfunctory daily rituals and routines that we enhance the personal relationships that nourish and sustain us.”

67. “Ironically, it seems that it is by the means of seemingly perfunctory daily rituals and routines that we enhance the personal relationships that nourish and sustain us.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “Laundry, liturgy and women’s work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.”

68. “Laundry, liturgy and women’s work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “Living with people at close range over many years, as both monastics and small-town people do, is much more difficult than wearing a hair shirt. More difficult, too, I would add, than holding to the pleasant but unrealistic ideal of human perfectibility that seems to permeate much New Age thinking.”

69. “Living with people at close range over many years, as both monastics and small-town people do, is much more difficult than wearing a hair shirt. More difficult, too, I would add, than holding to the pleasant but unrealistic ideal of human perfectibility that seems to permeate much New Age thinking.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “Anyone who listens to the world, anyone who seeks the sacred in the ordinary events of life, has “problems about how to believe.”

70. “Anyone who listens to the world, anyone who seeks the sacred in the ordinary events of life, has “problems about how to believe.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “I had begun to comprehend that the Bible’s story is about the relationship of God to human beings, and of human beings to one another, and that this meant that it is our friendships, marriages, families, and even church congregations that best reveal what kind of theology we have, who our God is. Or, as Thomas Merton once put it, “because we love, God is present.” That is the story.”

71. “I had begun to comprehend that the Bible’s story is about the relationship of God to human beings, and of human beings to one another, and that this meant that it is our friendships, marriages, families, and even church congregations that best reveal what kind of theology we have, who our God is. Or, as Thomas Merton once put it, “because we love, God is present.” That is the story.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “But the joke is on us: what we think we are only ‘getting through’ has the power to change us, just as we have the power to transform what seems meaningless – the endless repetitions of a litany or the motions of vacuuming a floor.”

72. “But the joke is on us: what we think we are only ‘getting through’ has the power to change us, just as we have the power to transform what seems meaningless – the endless repetitions of a litany or the motions of vacuuming a floor.”

— Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris Quote: “The city no longer appeals to me for the cultural experiences and possessions I might acquire there, but because its population is less homogeneous than Plains society. Its holiness is to be found in being open to humanity in all its diversity. And the western Plains now seem bountiful in their emptiness, offering solitude and room to grow.”

73. “The city no longer appeals to me for the cultural experiences and possessions I might acquire there, but because its population is less homogeneous than Plains society. Its holiness is to be found in being open to humanity in all its diversity. And the western Plains now seem bountiful in their emptiness, offering solitude and room to grow.”

— Kathleen Norris

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