Chapter 72: The good spirit which should inspire monastic life
It is easy to recognize the bitter spirit of wickedness which creates a barrier to God's grace and opens the way to the evil of hell. But equally there is a good spirit which frees us from evil ways and brings us closer to God and eternal life.
(From Ch. 72 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)
St. Benedict implies that this "good spirit" is harder to recognize. But I'm ever so gradually learning to recognize it my body, as an absence of anxiety, as an integration of mind/body/spirit, as an unafraid confidence of my rootedness in God.
St. Benedict implies that this "good spirit" is harder to recognize. But I'm ever so gradually learning to recognize it my body, as an absence of anxiety, as an integration of mind/body/spirit, as an unafraid confidence of my rootedness in God.
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