In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined-by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence. (Richard Rohr)

In solitude, at last, we're able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined-by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence.

Richard Rohr

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