It is by self-forgetting ... that one finds

"Lord make me a channel of Thy Peace, That where there is hatred ... I may bring love, That where there is wrong ... I may bring the spirit of forgiveness, That where there is discord ... I may bring harmony, That where there is error ... I may bring truth, That where there is doubt ... I may bring faith, That where there is despair ... I may bring hope, That where there are shadows ... I may bring light, That where there is sadness ... I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort ... than to be comforted, To understand ... .than to be understood, To love ... than to be loved.

For ... it is by self-forgetting ... that one finds, It is by forgiving ... that one is forgiven, It is by dying ... that one awakens to Eternal Life."

Saint Francis of Assisi