Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Person--First of a Series on the Charism

To be a Person is to make the leap from:

  • Mimicry to Creativity
  • Coercion to Spontaneity
  • Obedience to Genuine Desire
  • Anonymity Protagonism

In the interior world of the human person is where God has placed what is most beautiful and wonderful in His creation.

The life of every person consists in running from his/her fears and journeying toward his/her aspirations. One walks towards or runs from...

The source of freedom and joy lies within oneself.

No one ought to invade the "jurisdictional waters" of the person (his/her aura, his/her most private self).

Every person longs to discover the sunlit part of their "ego": to identify the most private aspect of their reality as a person; the framework of his/her identity.

Good and evil can only be evaluated--judged--from the perspective of man or, better said, in relationship to him.

Man is a process of processes that processes itself--a reality of realities that are being realized.

One is not a Christian, nor a person; one gradually becomes one...

"Today man is the way of the Church" (John Paul II, "Centesimus annus")

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." (Maya Angelou)

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