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“According to Father Ron Rolheiser, “American culture is the most powerful narcotic this planet has ever perpetrated.”5 By keeping us focused on food, pleasure, entertainment, and comfort, it keeps us from developing spiritual depth, personal integrity, character, concern for the poor, or community life.”
― Louis M. Savary, New Spiritual Exercises, The: In the Spirit of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin