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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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Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without…
— Norman Cousins
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Just as the day cannot exist without the night, just as life cannot exist without death, creativity cannot exist without silence. And…
— Rajneesh
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There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.
— Herbert Marcuse
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Privilege does not operate without silence.
— Junot Diaz
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When you are aware of space, you are not really aware of anything, except awareness itself - the inner space of consciousness.…
— Eckhart Tolle
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness…
— Anthony de Mello
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Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot…
— Henri Nouwen
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Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.
— Deepak Chopra
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Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating…
— Melina Marchetta
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When doctrines divide and "isms" turn human against human, without speech, without silence, let us demonstrate. Let these demonstrations manifest everywhere. Not…
— Samuel L. Lewis
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