
David Steindl-Rast — How to Be Grateful in Every Moment (But Not for Everything)
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Anxiety is a Direction rather than a Something
You've said that god is a direction rather than a something. A direction, yes, yes, but not an impersonal directionhe a, there is wonderful line marilke in which he prays to god. Because who am i and who are you if we don't understand one another? That is spoken to that great mystery. When i say mystery, i mean not something vague. I mean something very clear. And so everything hinges on distrust in life, trust. And with distrust, with is faith. We can go into that anxiety and say, it's terrible, it is awful, but it may i trust that it is just another birth into into greater fulness.
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