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By Karl Rahner
One of many classics of recent spirituality, Encounters with Silence is one in every of Karl Rahner's so much lucid and strong books. A publication of meditations approximately man's relation with God, it's not a piece of dry theology, yet quite a e-book of prayerful reflections on love, wisdom, and religion, obedience, daily exercises, existence with our pals and associates, our paintings and vocation, and human goodness. The enormous luck of this relocating paintings is a tribute to its practicality and the facility of the nice theologian to talk easily and but profoundly to bland women and men looking an inspiring consultant to the internal existence, one who by no means forsakes the area of truth. The publication is solid within the type of a discussion with God that strikes from humble yet involved inquiry to pleased contemplation.
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And what is man but a being that is not sufficient to itself, a being who sees his own insufficiency, so that he longs naturally and necessarily for Your In finity ? What is man but the being who must follow the urge to run toward Your distant stars, who must keep up his chase until he has covered all the highways and by ways of this world , only in the end to see yo u r stars still co ursing their serenely ordered way-and as far away as e ver ? Even if I should try to escape from my routine by be coming a Carthusian, so that I'd have noth i ng more to do but spen d my days in silent adorat ion of Your holy presence, would that solve my problem ?
And haven't I often called things barriers and restric tions upon Your freedom, when they were actually a defen sive wall for the protection of the liberty of loving You, a safeguard against the law in my own members ? How many times have I learned through hard experience toot the human laws of Your Church are a salutary school of patience and discipline, of self-mastery and self-possession, of consideration and love of neighbor ? How often have I found out that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should ?
You are as silent to me as my dead. I love You too, as I love my dead, the quiet and distant ones who have entered into night. And yet not even You give me answer, when my loving heart calls upon You for a sign that You and Your Love are present to me. So how can I complain about my dead, when their silence is only the echo of Yours ? Or can it be that Your silence is Your answer to my complaint about theirs ? That must be the way it is, since You are the last answer, even though incomprehensible, to all the questions of my heart.