Vincent Van Gogh, the artist, who was born on 30 March in 1853, said once: 'The best way to know God is to love many things.' That’s why we have to fill life with the best: the best of music, the best of art, the best of people, the best of literature, the best ideas, the best of the spiritual life. Today, fill yourself with one good thing: listen to a favorite piece of music, gaze at an art piece that you love, have a meaningful conversation, read something new. Don’t be fooled by things that may seem to fill us but which really leave our souls empty and barren." —from A Monastery Almanac by Joan Chittister (Benetvision)