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- 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…
- The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks…
- The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is…
- When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can…
- Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can…
- Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose,…
- The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first…
- Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood'…
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