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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete…
— Bryan Magee
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To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid…
— Gabrielle
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Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The spiritual life is a reaching out to our innermost self, to our fellow human and to our God.
— Henri Nouwen
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Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering.…
— Hermann Hesse
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To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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