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“By 2000, six years after NAFTA was implemented, trade between Mexico and the United States had tripled, to $247 billion, and the four bridges that connected Nuevo Laredo to Laredo saw 60,000 trucks go north per week.”
― Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel
― Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel
“when rightly practiced, asceticism is the human component of the mysterious incarnate intimacy of human intention and divine grace which holds the only real hope of victory over attachment. Like”
― Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
― Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
“the civilization which had given birth to Bigger contained no spiritual sustenance, had created no culture which could hold and claim his allegiance and faith, had sensitized him and had left him stranded,”
― Native Son
― Native Son
“These conditions reflected the failures of modern civilization—the death of genuine spiritual values and traditions, the harsh ness of economic greed and exploitation, the avarice for glittering material goods that, in a culture of consumerism, ultimately possessed the possessor.”
― Native Son
― Native Son
“I do not understand my own behavior; I do not act as I mean to, but I do the things that I hate. Though the will to do what is good is in me, the power to do it is not; the good thing I want to do, I never do; the evil thing which I do not want—that is what I do.”2 In writing these words, Paul was talking about sin. Theologically, sin is what turns us away from love—away from love for ourselves, away from love for one another, and away from love for God. When I look at this problem psychologically, I see two forces that are responsible: repression and addiction. We all suffer from both repression and addiction. Of the two, repression is by far the milder one. Repression”
― Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
― Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions
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