To exist is to dwell in mystery; to live is — all by itself — a miracle of incalculable worth. To see, to hear, to touch, to taste, to inhale and smell this earth, to come from nothing and pass into infinity, to possess consciousness and the awareness of consciousness (a human quality), to be able to love, to feel, to grieve, to laugh, to know sorrow, to know joy, to praise and feel gratitude to God for the reality in which we are privileged to participate — to be human — is to begin to pray. It is, in fact, to be both potentially and actually a mystic and a contemplative. As we are able, with
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