“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“Today, the monks are perhaps the last remaining people who can understand the words of Saint Francis of Assisi’s “Canticle of Brother Sun”: Praise be to you, my Lord, for our sister Corporeal Death, from whom no living man can escape. Sorrowful are they who die in mortal sin; happy are they whom she finds living according to your will, for the second death can do them no harm.”
― A Time To Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life
― A Time To Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life
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