Joe's Black Dog

Joe's Black Dog
Joe's Black Dog by Marjorie Weiss

09 December 2013

Sacrament of the Present Moment

Shinkyo (Sacred Bridge), Nikko, Japan by Paul Mannix
Shinkyo (Sacred Bridge), Nikko, Japan, a photo by Paul Mannix on Flickr.

'Some Catholics have a concept I much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred, and that we should make of each moment a sacrament. Were we to do this we would think of the entire world as diffused with holiness. Wherever we might be would be a holy place for us, and we would see the holy, even sainthood, in everyone we encounter.'

from In Search of Stones, p. 71
by M. Scott Peck
1995 Simon & Schuster, London.