The welfare of the few gained at the expense of the many cannot be ethical…[T]he primitive vision of the Christian Church in the New Testament…is: “The gift that is given to me is given to be given.” It’s not given to be hoarded. It’s given so that surveying the environment I’m in, I find where that gift is needed. And I give it.
—Rowan Williams
We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do…forgetting that none of these verbs have any ulitmate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in the fundamental verb, to Be.
—Evelyn Underhill
If you are not happy with your life, you can change it in two ways: either improve the conditions in which you live, or improve your inner spiritual state. The first is not always possible, but the second is.
—Leo Tolstoy
