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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…
• Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
• All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…
• Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
• In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
• A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
• Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
• Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
• When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
• ...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
• Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
• 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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