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It is the proportion of order to disorder in an actual world which conditions the intensity of a resultant satisfaction, which intensity is the private aim of the concrescence, that which the entity seeks for itself—
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
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“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
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“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”
― The Practice of the Presence of God
― The Practice of the Presence of God
“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
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“To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of our loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude. The movement from loneliness to solitude, however, is the beginning of any spiritual life because it it is the movement from the restless senses to the restful spirit,l from the outward-reaching cravings to the inward-reaching search, from the fearful clinging to the fearless play.”
― Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
― Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
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