For this purpose, contact with nature and with other people can help indirectly, but the special and direct means is prayer. Open your hearts and your consciences to the one who knows you better than you know yourselves. Deepen your knowledge of the word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures. And He calls you to a process of discovering, organising, choosing, relating, wondering -in a word, to a realisation of yourself as a person in your own right, greatly loved by God. Let your life become an unbroken conversation with Jesus, who wants you to be fully alive.
Development means more than body building.
It is person building. It follows or, rather, goes hand in hand with being a participant in life. It has to do with becoming aware of the other people in your life, especially those less able to care for themselves, and realising they are your sisters and brothers. Development is also about taking care of the world, of your environment. To see yourself as a caretaker is to see value in everything.