These are some of the quotes from a study on this simple jesuit.
He was fascinated by all the wonders of God's creation on earth and in the heavens and this fascination determined the general direction of his life... 'You will find the general drection for your journey through life, you will find the treasure hidden in the field, through your appreciation of the world around you.'
If I appreciate what is around me, I will also wonder at it, be amazed and astonished by it, feel a kind of reverence or it, especially reverence for the mistery of every human being. Out of appreciation comes praise, and true praise includes reverence and wonder, and the desire to be somehow absorbed and at one with the object of my wonder. This is the root of the desire to serve, the desire to be at one with the harmony of creation, to be taken up in it rather than to try and control it for my own purposes...
We can find God only in and through our relationships with other people and with the world around us. We need to love and be loved, because it is only through these relationships that we can come to know God, who is Love...
If we were able to discover what we really want, if we could become conscious of the deepest desire within us, then we should have discovered God's will. God's will is not an impersonal blue-print for living forced on us by a capricious God and contrary to almost every inclination in us. God's will is our freedom. He wants us to discover what we really want and who we really are.
