Living in the second half of life, I no
longer have to prove that I or my group is the best, that my ethnicity
is superior, that my religion is the only one that God loves, or that my
role and place in society deserve superior treatment. I am not
preoccupied with collecting more goods and services; quite simply, my
desire and effort—every day—is to pay back, to give back to the world a
bit of what I have received. I now realize that I have been gratuitously
given to—from the universe, from society, and from God. I try now, as Elizabeth Seton said, “to live simply so that others can simply live.”
—from the book Yes, And...: Daily Meditations by Richard Rohr
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