We are called to take everything, to accept everything: that which I already understand, but also that which I will discover; what suits me, and what I resist. I accept the unpleasant thing in order to adapt to it – if it is a good thing; in the opposite case, I accept it in order to transform it. It is necessary to accept the wind that lifts and elevates me, but also the one that blows against me and forces me to gain altitude.
(Dom Samuel Lauras OCSO /*1954/, foreword to the book Mary David, Joy from God)
