Marriage:

Let there be spaces in your togetherness
Let the winds of the heavens dance between you
Love one another, but make not a bond of love
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls
Fill each others’ cup, but bring drink not from one cup
Sing and dance together and be joyous,
But let each one of you be alone.
Even as the strings of a lute are alone, though they quiver with the same music

- Khahlil Gibran
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His alone is the gentlest of loves: whose pure flame respects all things.
God, who owns all things, leaves them all to themselves
He never takes them for his own, the way we take them for our own, and destroy them.
He leaves them to themselves.
He never keeps them for his own, He keeps giving to them, giving them all that they are asking.
No thanks of them save that they should receive from Him,
And be loved and nurtured by Him.

- Thomas Merton
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When you know no peace, how can you know joy?

- Bhagavad Gita

Spiritual attainment and the highest standards of conduct must go hand in hand. Unless both are there, neither is there.

- Emmett Fox

The father of selfishness is the devil. Mary is the mother of all of us sinners, from the most to the least holy. Mary is the one who safeguards us.

-Pope Francis

If you have money to lend, take no interest.
Give it to someone from whom you won't get it back.

- Jesus

Obedience and humility are the same thing. Every act of obedience is an act of the will. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you the grace of obedience.

- Mother Teresa

This flower, this light, this moment, this silence-
The Lord is here
Best because the flower is itself
And the silence is itself
And I am myself.

- Thomas Merton

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