Portal:Saints/Quotes/July 2007

All of us have a race to run towards our appointed end. So we are all ‘on the way’. This is how you should think of the ‘way’. You are a traveller in this life. Everything goes past you and is left behind. You notice a flower on the way, or some grass, or a stream, or something worth looking at. You enjoy it for a moment, then pass on. Maybe you come on stones or rocks or crags or cliffs or fences, or perhaps you meet wild beasts or reptiles or thorn bushes or some other obstacles. You suffer briefly then escape. That is what life is like. Pleasures do not last but pain is not permanent either. The ‘way’ does not belong to you nor is the present under your control. But as step succeeds step, enjoy each moment as it comes and then continue on your ‘way’. Basil of Caesarea Commentary on Psalm 1, 4