Balthasar - Be "open toward heaven" rather than "closed toward earth"

 Je dois m’ouvrir du côté du del plutôt que de mefermer du côté de la terre : “I must open myself up on the side of heaven rather than shut myself off on the side of the earth.” CONSUMMATA

Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Grain of Wheat: Aphorisms (1953), chapter titled Parting

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Wojtyla - The Prayer in Gethsemane (from Sign of Contradiction)

The prayer in Gethsemane 1. Sharing the prayer of Jesus In this meditation we are going to return to a subject already spoken of: prayer. Bu...