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“Enjoy being, for now, largely insignificant. Try many things, try breaking into significance.”
― John Aroutiounian, Finding Gold in the Dark: Reflections on Modern America, Virtue, and Faith

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“What’s unsettling in all these moments is the possibility that not everything is a construct, that maybe there are things, including untapped energies within us, that point to the transcendent— that maybe some meaning was, and is, and will always be there long after we’re gone. It’s almost as if, even in our world, we’re still haunted, to paraphrase Flannery O’Connor, by the suspicion that we’re here for an actual reason, and that reason is equally true for all of us, whether or not we believe in it.”
― John Aroutiounian, Finding Gold in the Dark: Reflections on Modern America, Virtue, and Faith

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“I love everything I do, and I fully invest myself emotionally into the people and the activities I love. I used to not be this way. I used to hate the emotional baggage that came from loving someone or something so much that it hurt. But stumbling upon a quote from Mother Teresa once, I realized just how flawed that approach was. ‘I have found the paradox,’ she says, ‘That if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.’...I love Amor Vincit Omnia. I love it so much because it never stops holding true. Love conquers all, and it does it again and again. Love conquers me every single day.”
― John Aroutiounian, Finding Gold in the Dark: Reflections on Modern America, Virtue, and Faith

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