Friendship is the call out of isolation and selfishness in order to teach me how to love and how to serve. But without stability, friendship – real soul-searing friendship, the kind that makes us choose between domination and infatuation and possessiveness and dependence for growth and freedom and depth and responsibility and self-knowledge – is impossible.Stability is what enables us, in other words, to live totally in God and totally for others.

Friendship is the call out of isolation and selfishness in order to teach me how to love and how to serve. But without stability, friendship – real soul-searing friendship, the kind that makes us choose between domination and infatuation and possessiveness and dependence for growth and freedom and depth and responsibility and self-knowledge – is impossible.Stability is what enables us, in other words, to live totally in God and totally for others.

– Joan D. Chittister –

Wisdom Distilled from the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today

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