“I remember another Jesuit who once said to us at an intimate gathering of the men of our Jesuit province in Bombay, ‘I’m eighty years old; I’ve been a Jesuit for sixty-five years. I have never once missed my hour of meditation – never once.’
Now that could be very admirable, or it could also be a compulsion. No great merit in it if it’s mechanical.
The beauty of an action comes not from its having become a habit but from its sensitivity, consciousness, clarity of perception, and accuracy of response.”
Mmm, Peaches 