Love's First Step
Love's first step is attention.
- Simone Weil
"Focusing on one thing in nature every day - one rose in a beautiful vase, one old tree gnarled but indomitable, one rugged mountain range undiminished by time, or whatever it is that calls us to reverence the mystery that is life - is meditation enough to make life precious whatever its stressors."
- Joan Chittister, Aspects of the Heart
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More on Simone Weil
More on Sister Joan Chittister: Web site; Interview: "Sister Joan Chittister, Dissident Nun, Share Her Secret Life"
Photos: Garden blooms, Cornus sericea, Clematis 'Etoile Violette' & Crabapple blossoms, Spring 2016, P. Doyle