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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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The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness…
— Thomas Keating
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We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We…
— Swami Vivekananda
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We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness…
— Henri Nouwen
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We don't know what to do with our own pain, so what to do with the pain of others? We don't know…
— Jean Vanier
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Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power;…
— Maria Mitchell
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Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness
— Jean Vanier
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The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to…
— George Eliot
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The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the…
— Pema Chodron
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Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.
— Jean Vanier
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