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We struggle to maintain a dead past in the name of peace and refuse the new life that running water brings to everything. We confuse ‘stagnant’ with ‘calm’ and call it holiness. We miss the power of the paradox that peace is not passivity and that a living death is neither death nor life.
Sister Joan D. Chittister is an American Benedictine nun, theologian, and advocate. She has written more than sixty books focusing both on monasticism and interfaith issues such as peace, justice, and equality, especially for women in church and society.
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