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Beyond the High Peaks: Exploring the Lesser-Known Regions of the Adirondacks

by Walt McLaughlin

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Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax (Catholic Practice in North America) by Michael N. McGregor

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In this, as in so many other important matters, his model was Brahmachari. It is better to have faith that what you need will come to you than the assurance of money in the bank,

“We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.”
― Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

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“Freedom of the Press,
if it means anything at all,
means the freedom
to criticize and oppose”
― George Orwell

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“Even though my natural acts are good they have a tendency, when they are only natural, to concentrate my faculties on the man that I am not, the one I cannot be, the false self in me, the character that God does not know. This is because I am born in selfishness. I am born self-centered. And this is original sin.”
― Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

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