If I am content...with what I am given, whether it be my talents and gifts or my material possessions, then I can rejoice in what I have received and look with equal rejoicing on what others have been given. This asks a true mutual concern for one another. Neither the strong nor the weak envy the other. Grumbling is the enemy of this. When I think of those greatest grumblers of all, the Pharisees, who are the prototype of the strong and are jealous shown to the weak, I realize that what is being asked of me is a deep loving openness, which does not judge, which is in fact simply the exercise of unconditional love that is ultimately what Benedict is hoping for us all. - Esther de Waal
