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““...Our challenge as Christians is not to try to convert people around us to our way of belief but to love them, to be ourselves living incarnations of what we believe, to live what we believe and to love what we believe.””

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Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

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That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.

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