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• It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out…
• The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in…
• We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one…
• Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
• Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is…
• A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation…
• Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious…
• To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away…
• Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about…
• It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we…
• Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step…
• In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.

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