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Teresa de Ávila
“The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes.”
St. Therese of the Child Jesus

E.B. White
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
E. B. White

Asa Don Brown
“Challenge the negative by focusing on the positive of life.”
Asa Don Brown

Thomas Merton
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

“we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction”
Margaret Silf , Sacred Spaces: Stations on a Celtic Way

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