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- I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some…
- Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and…
- Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the…
- As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf…
- Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.
- To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness…
- There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom,…
- One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and…
- My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain…
- What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting…
- But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see…
- The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For…
- The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life…
- In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,…
- Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own…
- Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What,…
- My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an…
- After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,…
- For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.
- See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in which all history…
- The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the…
- For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man…
- It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted…
- It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the…
- Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle