If we earnestly desire holiness, three things are necessary:

-       Prayer - fervent, and with fidelity
-       Self-denial -control our bodily sense and penance
-       Charity -humility and God's grace

-Mother Teresa

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I give no thought to what lies behind but push onto what's ahead.
My entire attention is on the finish line as I run toward the prize to which God calls me- a life high with Jesus Christ.

- St. Paul

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Come to me. You will find rest. My yoke is comfortable.

-Jesus

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In silence we must simply realize that we are in water over our heads.

-Merton

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What I do is love. How I pray is breathe.

-Merton

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Listen to the silence
let it enfold you
like a piece of music
like bird watching

-Esther deWaal

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When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first.

-Rumi

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The oak asked the almond tree: “Tell me about God.”
And the almond tree blossomed.

-Anonymous

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He says to her, “Now you will have others” And gives us all a mom, who gives birth to us on the cross.

-Pope Francis

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We were punished many times a day, and we were also rewarded many times a day. Soon we became afraid of being punished and also afraid of not receiving the reward. The reward is the attention we got from others. We soon develop a need to hook other people's attention in order to get a reward. We start pretending to be what we are not, just to please others, just to be good enough for someone else.

-Miguel Ruiz

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Yoga is skill in action, evenness of mind -detachment from the dualities of pain and pleasure, success and failure, required if one is to act in freedom rather merely react to events compelled by conditioning. If he can establish himself in yoga, and unshakable equanimity, profound Peace of Mind, he will be more effective in the realm of action. His judgment will be better and vision clear if he is not emotionally entangled in the outcome of what he does.

-Bhagavad Gita

The moon’s the same old moon,
The flowers exactly as they were,
Yet I've become the thingness
Of all the things I see.

-Shido Bunan

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Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
To “see” signifies spiritual perception- just that capacity to apprehend the true nature of being which we all so badly lack.
Heaven is the religious name for the presence of God. Heaven is the realm of spirit, substance, without age, or discord, or decay; a realm of eternal goods; And yet, to our distorted vision, everything is aging, decaying, wearing out; Getting born only to die, blossoming only to fade.

We're very much in the position of a color blind man in a beautiful flower garden.

-Emmet Fox

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The fall of man -using our free will and opposition to the will of God.
Purity is recognizing God alone as the only real cause and the only real power in existence -the “single eye”.
The heart is the subconscious mind. “As a man think ith in his heart-so is he.”

Sync from your shallows, soul, into eternity, and slake your wonder at the deep lake spring. We touched the rays we cannot see, we feel the light that seems to sing.

-Merton

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It just may be
Your soulmate is nothing more
Than a reflection of yourself,
Teaching you to love every perfect
Hard to reach perfection of you.
Because if you can love someone in spite
of theirs, why not yours.

-a.c. sparks

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