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“The soul of the Christian needs to be refined and sensitive, to have sensibility and wings, to be constantly in flight and to live in dreams, to fly through infinity, among the stars, amidst the greatness of God, amid silence. Whoever wants to become a Christian must first become a poet. (p. 107)”
― Wounded by Love
― Wounded by Love
“With humility you attract the grace of God. You surrender yourself to the love of God, to worship and to prayer. But even if you do all in the world, you achieve nothing if you haven't acquired humility. (p. 178)”
― Wounded by Love
― Wounded by Love
“Tao is obscured when men understand only one of a pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. (p. 42)”
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from —”
― Till we have Faces : A Myth Retold
― Till we have Faces : A Myth Retold
“There is a monastic outlook which is common to all those who have elected to question the value of a life submitted entirely to arbitrary secular presuppositions, dictated by social convention, and dedicated to the pursuit of temporal satisfactions which are perhaps only a mirage. Whatever may be the value of "life in the world" there have been, in all cultures, men who have claimed to find something they vastly prefer in solitude. (p. 10)”
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
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