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- There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which…
- For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.
- There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests…
- Therefore, doing the Stations of the Cross was still more laborious than consoling, and required a sacrifice. It was much the same with all my…
- Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the…
- Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and…
- If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take…
- Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is…
- It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only…
- Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get…
- Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal…
- The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He…
- Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a…
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- To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
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- I don't want to convert people to Buddhism — all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good. — Dalai Lama