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Let my soul praise you, that it may love you, 

that it may proclaim your compassion.

And that it may praise you for your compassion.


The entire universe never ceases to praise you. 

It is never silent.


The human spirit turns to you in praise. 

Animals, and even lifeless things, praise you 

through the lips of those who contemplate them.


So our soul rises from its weariness, 

leans on the things you have made, 

and through them soars up to you, 

who made all these amazing things.

And in you the soul finds strength and is restored.

(Confessions 5.2)



An extract from Finding Your Hidden Treasure

© 2010 Benignus O'Rourke OSA

Published by Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd

© Photo: Ian Wilson OSA

Get the book: www.theaugustinians.org


SELECTED FURTHER READING


Augustine, Sermons; The City of God; Confessions; The Trinity

Bloom, Anthony: School for Prayer 

Chapman, John: Spiritual Letters

Eckhart, Meister: Sermons

Eliot, George: Felix Holt

Gangaji: The Diamond in your Pocket

Hesse, Hermann: The Glass Bead Game

Hopkins, Gerard Manley: Collected Poems

Johnson, William: Letters to Contemplatives

Main, John: Letters from the Heart 

Murdoch, Iris: The Good Apprentice

Merton, Thomas: Asian Journal

O'Donoghue, John: Divine Beauty

O'Leary, Daniel: Already Within

Pennington, Basil: O Holy Mountain

Pronzato, Allesandro: Meditations on the Sand 

Tauler, Johann: Sermons

Thomas, R. S.: Collected Poems 1945 – 1990

Vickers, Salley: Miss Garnet's Angel

Watts, Alan: Behold the Spirit

Wiesel, Elie: Souls on Fire

Wordsworth, William: Poems 

Yeats, W. B.: Poems



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