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Simple and thought-provoking. Where can you find a place in your life for silence and for solitude?

"When you are CERTAIN of GOD'S LOVE for you, then everything else tales its place behind enlightenment."

Change is God's clear pattern.

"To be whole is very important. Wholeness...To have a well-rounded life. To have a good intellectual life, where you're reading and thinking and discussing. To have a strong emotional life where you can give and receive intimacy with people. To develop friendships like a garden. Because there's just no room for these Lone Rangers who go and try to save the world by themselves!" - Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J.

"Presence is experienced in a participative way, outside the mind. The mind by nature is intent on judging, controlling, and analyzing instead of seeing, tasting, and loving. This is exactly why it cannot be present or live in the naked now. The mind wants a job and loves process things. The key to stopping this game is, quite simply, peace, silence, or stillness."

"How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow."

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

Remember the three gates: Don't talk unless it's true; don't talk unless it is loving; and, finally don't talk unless it is necessary. And even if we pass through these three -- "the best things can not be talked about"!

"For most of my life I have struggled to find God, to know God, to love God. I have tried hard to follow the guidelines of the scriptural life - pray always, work for others, read the scriptures - and to avoid the many temptations to dissipate myself. I have failed many times but always tried again, even when I was close to despair." -- Henri Nouwrn

"I'm suffering very much, but am suffering very well. That's the point!" - Saint Therese of Lisieux

The first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of his own life, not by rationalizing but by living it.

We are humans and we tempt ourselves; we have to be very alert to take care of the anointing that we received because it is a gift from God. -Jorge Mario Bergoglio

All of us seek eros, and then when eros wants to turn itself into philos, we think that love is worthless. We don't see that it is philos that leads us to the highest form of love, agape.

"We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have accustomed to."

Time has come. It is finished!

"There is a reason God limits our day." "Why?" "To make each one precious."

There is a reason God limits man's days. Finish your journey and you will know.

Holding on to things "will only break your heart."

"When you come to an end, that's where God begins."

"God, I know I'm going to see you soon. And we'll have some nice conversations. But meanwhile, God, if you're gonna taaake me, take me now. And if you're gonna leeeave me here maybe give me strength to do what should be done."