Some quick thoughts that have occurred to me recently

Having is not being. Being is being. So the best way to inspire being is by communion with the I AM, the Author of being. In worshiping the one in whose image we are, the fuller our humanity will be. Placing a worshipful focus anywhere else diminishes our being, our humanity.

Addiction is existence by non-existence, or being by non-being. That is, addictions are the absence of being, so one's addictive behavior is really a subversion of one's being.

Theology (as we normally think of the word) is theologia secunda, whereas liturgy is theologia prima.

What we refer to as "sin" should be divided into three categories: inadequacy, failure, and sin. Inadequacy is the inability to do something, and therefore people who are inadequate to a task or standard of behavior should not feel guilty for "missing the mark." Failure is when you have the ability, but you don't do something. Sin is when you have the ability, but you rebel.

Helpful distinction btwn mysteries and problems. Things give rise to problems that we use calculation to solve. Persons, including God, give rise to mysteries, which are beyond our capacity to reduce to problems, and therefore calculation is the wrong response to mysteries; the appropriate response is reflection or contemplation or study. We often get the two mixed up. How often, for example, do you treat your spouse or kids as problems instead of mysteries?

Assume the mind and disposition of what you conceive a priest to be. See how it goes. This is a good way to figure out whether or not you should actually become a priest (in the vocational sense).

Final thought. Augustine in his "Letter to Proba" wrote of "unceasing prayer" as continual desire for God, a fire of longing, if you like. Conscious prayer then becomes a way to keep this fire hot because through the course of a day, this fire can grow cool. So ceaseless prayer is about an orientation of desire for God and the regular renewal of this desire.